[vox-tech] [Lug-nuts] Secure Wiping hard drives

[Brian Lavender]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 03:20:40PM -0700, Eric Lin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Darth Borehd <darth.borehd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anything requiring power tools, sledgehammers, drills, or small bits flying off is
> > vetoed by the company HR due to safety.  Shotgun is *WAY* out.  (Except for
> > maybe the Texas office).
> 
> Would they allow running trucks over hard drives?

How easy is it to get at data that was zeroed out using dd from 
/dev/zero? 

brian
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