storage privacy (was: Nice quiet, private, anonymous life??)

[F. Fox]

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coderman wrote:
> apologies in advance for veering this far off topic...
> 
> On Dec 2, 2007 2:25 PM, F. Fox <kitsune.or at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [ strange, dangerous, and likely to fail methods for destroying drives ]
> 
> use full disk encryption, even the latest ubuntu supports this.
> 
> destroy the disk keys and you've got platters full of entropy.
> 
> anything else is just a bad idea.
> 
(snip)

I don't think much of the aforementioned physical "destruction" methods;
I also agree in that full disk encryption is the best way to go, if at
all possible.

However, given that a system has already been deployed without such
encryption, wouldn't secure overwriting be a reasonable way of
destroying such data?

It'd be slow, and maybe not effective against the most determined (and
well-funded) attackers - but at least it wouldn't be dangerous, weird,
and violent... =:oD

- --
F. Fox
CompTIA A+, Net+, Security+
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