On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > > > 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. > > this message turned up on ubuntu users as well. which explains why I'm NOT going to view the attached file. You neer know what is in it. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ------------------------------- Romans 5:8 (niv) ------------------------------