wipe utility

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, at 8:33pm, jeff at thecreems.com wrote:
>> The US DoD says that "Secret" and higher level classified data cannot be
>> sanitized off of a hard disk by software alone ...
> 
> That is simply not true. DoD does allow for software only sanitization of
> hard disks for data classified at the secret level under some conditions.
> 
> http://www.dss.mil/infoas/index.htm
> 
> Right site bar has Assessed Products list.

  That link didn't really shed any light on the subject; as you note, most
of it is access-controlled.  It doesn't really matter.  My point was to
illustrate that risk management means making intelligent decisions about
assets, threats, vulnerabilities, and counter-measures.  Not unreasoning
fear of journaled filesystems.  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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