<div>I think you're thinking of gnutmann. It wipes 35 passes but about a year ago researchers recovered data past that point. If researchers can do it, imagine what the government can do. In addition, there could be hardware taps on the machine.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Landorin</b> <<a href="mailto:Landorin@gmx.net">Landorin@gmx.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>I don't get it. Why buy a new one anyway? From what I know, any and
<br>every data will be lost if you format your hardisk with a safe method<br>(can't remember the name right now but that method keeps writing<br>random data to your entire hardisk to overwrite existing files and it<br>does it for 10 times or more to ensure all old data is lost)?
<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Landorin<br><br><br>Eric H. Jung schrieb:<br>> If you can't afford a new hard drive, be sure to wipe it using DBAN<br>> <a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">http://dban.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
> (open-source, free)<br>><br>><br>> --- Ringo Kamens <<a href="mailto:2600denver@gmail.com">2600denver@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Chances are it would be internal and couldn't hold much data. I
<br>>> really think<br>>> you should sell your rig and buy a used one that's comprable and cut<br>>> the<br>>> losses. It's too risky to keep it.<br>>><br>>> On 5/13/06, Olivier Barbut <
<a href="mailto:olivier.barbut@free.fr">olivier.barbut@free.fr</a>> wrote:<br>>>> thanks for the advice. I will for shure reformat everything and<br>>>> reinstall linux when I get time for this. Changing hard drives
<br>>> would be<br>>>> nice but I have not enough money for this right now.<br>>>><br>>>> Do you know what a hard drive tap could look like ?<br>>>>> As for the tor server, I suggest that you completely wipe those
<br>>> drives<br>>>>> securely, reformat, and reinstall everything. The best thing to<br>>> do<br>>>>> would be to sell those drives and buy new ones because it could<br>>> be<br>
>>>> that they put taps in them. Also, they could have installed a<br>>>>> keylogger. If I were you, I wouldn't use any of that equipment<br>>> again.<br>>>>> At the very minimum, you need to reinstall windows/linux/etc. and
<br>>> tor<br>>>>> with a reformat because they probably put in a trojaned version<br>>> of tor.<br>><br>><br><br><br>- --<br>Accelerate cancer research with your PC:<br><a href="http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/curecancer.html">
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