Hello, On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good evening from Singapore! > > > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name > > used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual > > name used) had *promised* our customer Leave Me in the Lurch (S) Pte > > Ltd (fictitious company name used) that we would "DEGAUSS" their hard > > disks after the PC replacement and data migration exercise for 15 > > trillion PCs (fictitious number used). > > > > PC = Personal Computer, which includes desktops and laptops > > > <snip> > A little too much other info, and overly eloquent. However, if your > company told the client that you were going to deGauss all the h/d, that's > what you need to do, contractually. > > If they've had a second discussion, and only want the data deleted, that's > another story. > > Is the data on a different partition than the o/s (i.e., /data? If so, you > can easily wipe the data, using say, shred, or DBAN (which offers both > 3-pass and the full 7-pass DoD 5220.22-M). If it's in the same partition, > and the same filesystem, you've got other issues. How do you *guarantee* > that there's no user data - say, installed third-party software mixed with > the o/s? > > Note that you really do have to make any third-party software, if it's > commercial, Go Away. Note that the original message has also been sent to the fedora users mailing list, no doubt it's spam now. Regards, -- wwp -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 836 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20180402/ef4796da/attachment-0004.sig>