dban is kind of the standard for wiping data, which iirc is 3 cycles of overwriting everything with 1s, then 0s.
dodgy_bagel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Follow up question: If I write my drive with 0s, how reliable are the mechanisms to read off of:
- An hdd
- A ssd
pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you actually fill the drive with zeroes, the chances of anyone getting anything back are somewhere between fuck and all.
Old MFM drives (tech likely as old as your parents) had a theoretical exploit for recovering erased data.
With modern tech, that loophole was firmly closed; even state-level actors would be shit outta luck.