[frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH Report 07-29-2010
- From: Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 08:22:05 -0700 (PDT)
Very good information indeed!
Many thanks Tony...
Richard
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Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
Mishawaka, IN
----- Original Message ----
From: Mike Cook <mikecook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, August 3, 2010 11:04:12 AM
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH Report 07-29-2010
Good information!
Mike
-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Germano <tony_germano@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Aug 3, 2010 10:33 AM
>To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Thursday WH Report 07-29-2010
>
>
>Also per the 2006 NIST Special Publication 800-88, DBAN isn't an acceptable
>for
>of purging data anyway for ATA drives manufactured after 2001. This has
>changed
>since the 1997 DoD recommendations. Short of pulverizing, incinerating,
>disintegrating, melting, or degaussing the drive, which all leave the drive
>unusable, the only acceptable method for these drives is using the firmware
>Secure Erase command. This is because none of the software-based methods
>overwrite sectors the firmware has marked as bad. This is especially important
>as the standard sector size will be 4 kilobytes in the near future up from the
>current 512 bytes. Some drive manufacturers have already started using 4kb
>sectors.
>
>HDDErase is a program that was formerly sponsored by the NSA
>(http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml). It is a DOS-based
>program that initiates the Secure Erase procedure in the drive's firmware. It
>is
>also available (along with DBAN) on the ultimate boot cd
>(http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)
>
>Tony
>
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