VMS Drive Cleanup Assist

Adrian> On 26/10/05 22:18, "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com> Adrian> wrote: Adrian> Wrong choice of words for me, I meant the way to properly Adrian> erase. For a company shipping a retired system out the door Adrian> there isn't really a way of convincing them that once a drive Adrian> is initialised by the OS it's not possible to get the data Adrian> back so it's usually easier to leave the drives behind. I think that depends on two things: how well the people understand technology, and how much they are worried about extreme attacks by 3 letter agencies with billion-dollar budgets. Re the latter: I think those agencies themselves have a simple rule: shred and/or incinerate all disk drives. Re the former: there are lots of perfectly good disk erase tools out there. "Autoclave" (http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave/) was one of those, but it seems to be retired. Except when you have billion dollar attackers, those are entirely adequate. That's especially true with modern disk drives, where the margins are far lower so the older "mil spec multi pass erase" techniques are far less relevant. paul