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Old February 19th 16, 12:21 PM posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Mr. Man-wai Chang
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Default Best software to securely erase USB flash drives these days?

On 2/19/2016 4:59 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdh

That would be secure enough to keep me happy. If you want more certainty,
look into standards for data erasure and find software, or make scripts,
which follow them.


That's surely the simplest way. Run that command multiple times.

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