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I used to use this once upon a time. Better than this, use any bootable Gentoo CD and use shred. Shred is much better than the obsolte "Boot and Nuke". As for those who think this is paranoia, it depends on what data you have to protect. If you do consulting for example, and have... more

Reviewed by chron May 01 2009, 08:34am ( 15 reviews ) • wikipedia.org

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Rated by vineetcoolguy on Jun 05, 11:57am

This is nothing new or unique!! There are hundreds of file shredding utilities that have been around for decades!
Rated by macson on May 04 2009, 1:38am

Or just do a dd -if /dev/zero -of /dev/sda. You may use /dev/urandom if you insist.
Rated by Clero on May 03 2009, 10:42am

How to get revenge
Rated by ricknelcan on May 02 2009, 6:33pm

I like it and have used it many, many times.
Rated by honeytech on May 02 2009, 3:09am

Thanks for the share.
Rated by chron on May 01 2009, 8:34am

I used to use this once upon a time. Better than this, use any bootable Gentoo CD and use shred. Shred is much better than the obsolte "Boot and Nuke". As for those who think this is paranoia, it depends on what data you have to protect. If you do consulting for example, and have customer data on your machine, this is a necessity. Also, if you buy used drives ... you don't have any idea whats been on them. Best to wipe them clean. "/usr/bin/shred -v -z -n 5 /dev/sda" for example.
Reviewed by Quirken on Apr 30 2009, 10:36pm

Paranoia paraoia everyone's coming to get me...
Rated by br79 on Apr 30 2009, 1:22pm

an app to truly erase all the date from a hard drive.
Rated by ZekeO on Apr 30 2009, 7:10am

Very handy, getting rid of fingerprints is a good idea.

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