Wipe or destroy? Dban is better than rm.


On Thu, Dec 17, 2015, 5:07 PMĀ  <phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
From Metro News today:

Two top McGuinty aides charged in gas plants computer probe

....
Faist was paid $10,000 for wiping the drives out of the taxpayer-funded
Liberal caucus budget, police allege. The party subsequently repaid the
sum to the public treasury.
....

Ten grand to erase some hard drives?

Boot a Linux CD or USBKey.
Change to the root directory.
rm -rf *.

Done.

Or maybe it was $50.00 to erase the drives and $9950.00 for 'discretion'.

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Peter Hiscocks
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto
http://www.syscompdesign.com
USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator
647-839-0325

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