RE: Program to wipe data from disk free space

From: Altheide, Cory B. <AltheideC(at)nv.doe.gov>
Date: Tue Aug 12 2003 - 12:11:22 EDT

Unfortunately nearly *every* single one of these tools that I've encountered that claim to wipe 100% fail in one or more circumstances.

I'm not able to name names or publish test results, so feel free to take what I've said with a gigantic grain of salt. However, as you can infer from the .gov email address - I'm not here to sell anything. (That's a good lesson to learn for future reading on this list, btw - read posts from salesmen with a very skeptical eye, *especially* in this field).

The only one that I haven't seen fail yet is DBAN ( http://dban.sourceforge.net ) - but I'm not done testing it.

Cory Altheide
Computer Forensics Specialist
NNSA Cyber Forensics Center
altheidec@nv.doe.gov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keenen Milner [mailto:kmilner@ghcllc.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:06 PM
> To: forensics@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Program to wipe data from disk free space
>
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> NTI has a tool that claims to wipe a drive 1 sector at a
http://www.secure-data.com/diskscrb.html

Best Regards,

Keenen

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Keenen Milner
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GHC Information Systems, LLC
(818) 325-8466 - voice
(818) 325-8566 - fax
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