Securely delete files...

[Faramir]

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Werner Koch escribió:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:45, kunalvshah at comcast.net said:
> 
>> If you are looking to wipe a disk,you can use DiskNuke. Both are sourceforge.net projects.
> 
> You cannot clear a modern drive using external software!  It doesn't

  Well, I can't say this discussion is not interesting, and I am not
complaining at all if it is not really on topic to this list (I mean, if
this thread goes on 1 week, I will still be reading all the messages),
but it is a bit too esoteric for me (and I am sure there are other
people feeling the same way), so, lets say I just want to avoid recovery
software like "get data back" being able to recover a file. Is there a
reliable way to do it without going to "extreme" solutions? I have seen
advices about using ccleaner, fileshredder, erase57, and other tools
like those, but after reading a lot about how difficult is to make data
unrecoverable, I am not sure if it is worth to even try... The idea is
to make deleted files (not whole drives) unrecoverable to commercial
recovery software, I am not interested in protecting myself against
government class laboratories (if a judge ever wants to see my data, I
would rather give it, and privately laugh about the resources spent to
recover harmless data).

> are enough labs which can do that.  If you want to protect against this,
> plain physical force is the way to go.  It is pretty easy to open a
> drive case and use a hammer to break the platters into small pieces.
> The last time I swung my hammer onto an opened drive, it looked as if
> the platters were made up of ceramic substrate: a lot of small pieces
> hit my safety goggles.  That won't be an easy puzzle to solve.

  A bit extreme for my needs... however, I figure that is the way to go,
if I was a bank trying to protect my customer's info.

  Best Regards
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