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Best software to securely erase USB flash drives these days?
On 18/02/16 12:29, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 2/18/2016 4:43 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote: A two pound hammer works nicely. What if you wanna sell it in 2nd-hand market? Could you offer tools that GUARANTEED a wipe? Who would be interested in buying a second-hand flash drive? You are talking about something that typically costs a few dollars new. Even for the more expensive drives, by the time you are wanting to sell it there are bigger and faster devices on the market for a fraction of the price you first paid for it. /Giving/ them to others for re-use is fair enough - and typically you don't /give/ away things to just anybody. So guarantees are neither possible nor necessary. |
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Best software to securely erase USB flash drives these days?
Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
On 2/18/2016 4:43 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote: A two pound hammer works nicely. What if you wanna sell it in 2nd-hand market? Could you offer tools that GUARANTEED a wipe? 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. -- __ __ #_ |\| | _# |
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Best software to securely erase USB flash drives these days?
David Brown wrote:
A two pound hammer works nicely. What good will it to be other users I give to? :P They can use the hammer to emphasis how displeased they are that you destroyed perfectly good USB flash drives :-) LOL. :-) -- Quote of the Week: "Yeah, what's left of it. I was in the militia -- national guard... That's good! Wasn't any war any more than there's war between men and ants." --stranger; "And we're eat-able ants. I found that out... What will they do with us?" --Pierson from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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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. -- @~@ Remain silent. Nothing from soldiers and magicians is real! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora release 23) Linux 4.3.5-300.fc23.x86_64 ^ ^ 20:12:01 up 3 days 13:19 0 users load average: 1.08 1.03 1.05 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Best software to securely erase USB flash drives these days?
On 19/02/16 13:21, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:
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. Why multiple times? If the drive is smart enough to compress zeros (something that does not happen on USB sticks, but does on high-end SSDs), writing some random data makes a little sense. But multiple times just wastes time and erase cycles. |
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