Posted by: devnullius
« on: 20. January 2014., 21:17:35 »(http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/disk-partition-wiper-unlimited/comment-page-1/#comment-391488)
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23. Peter Gutman wrote a famous paper of which the part “Methods of recovery for data stored in RAM” is of most interest. You can read this and that too if you want to know about Linux wiping methods (using a live CD for example). Links:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Securely_wipe_disk#Data_remanence
As a said in a previous post here about the same kind of software:
1. It is not certain that 1 (one) pass is not enough to securely erase a drive.
2. More probable is the more passes the more harm to the drive.
For the paranoid:
- Do not store anything sensitive on the main HDD, like keys, even once.
- Do not do encrytion while online.
- Do not trust Intel (search for AMT, microcode) nor Microsoft if you’re concerned about your privacy.
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#6:
I found on my HD a forgotten but free small portable software called Shredder. It can shred files or folders individually, wipe space, but not a entire disk/partition at once.
Usually, I use CCleaner for this no-brainer job of writing over free space —in one pass, of course. (I mostly do it when I need to compact the MFT before defragmenting a partition. I’s also a good way to clean the MFT, which gets bigger and bigger over time because it keeps track of all files, even the deleted ones.)
Comment by papin — January 20th, 2014 at 2:56 pm
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