On 6 October 2011 18:46, Rob Malpass <linux@???> wrote:
> Hi all
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> Yes this old chestnut again. Like most of us I guess, I have quite a few
> old hdds and we're now in chuck away mood. Physically I'll be disposing of
> these in as environmentally friendly a way as I can but destroying data is,
> as I remember, a bit tricky. I know data can be recovered even if you wipe
> the partition etc so here's my plan - any ideas how robust this is??
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> Essentially without a safe data shredding program, I'm going to use
> truecrypt to create an encrypted partition over whatever data was there
> beforehand. AFAIK this must overwrite what was there with a blank drive
> (not just a new partition table) which could only be accessed if they
> guessed my truecrypt encrypted password. So at best, someone could only
> ever get back to the blank encrypted drive - not the ntfs partition that was
> there before I "formatted" it with truecrypt.
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> I guess anything's possible but how decent a solution is this?
If you really have to erase all trace of the data, you should really
have thought about that before writing it to the HD.
Normal practice now is to use whole disk encryption.
Then, to erase the whole disk, just erase the key.
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