RE: Program to wipe data from disk free space

["Altheide, Cory B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keenen Milner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Program to wipe data from disk free space
> 
> 
> NTI has a tool that claims to wipe a drive 1 sector at a 
> time.  It is not free and they limit who can acquire it but 
> if you qualify, it is a nice little tool.
> 
http://www.secure-data.com/diskscrb.html


Best Regards,

Keenen
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