[clue] secure erase techniques?

[Will]

Create one partition that spans the whole drive and then cat /dev/urandom to
it.  That should take care of it for just about anyone but the NSA.

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:

> In short, I'm giving one of my older PC's to a friend's friend.  One of
> those, I don't need it, things.  In any case, in terms of secure destruction
> of drives, my father's always taught me to disassemble the drives and throw
> the heads and the platter out separately.  Can't do it here, they need the
> drives, so I thought I'd ask for advice in case we have members who might
> know a thing or two about this sort of thing.  I figured I'd probably just
> boot it to a live CD and nuke the partitions, and that's *probably *enough,
> after all, I don't need like a military-grade erase, but I'll settle for
> making it @#$@#$@$ hard to recover.  Any suggestions are welcome.
>
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