Darik’s Boot and Nuke

By Melissa | Permalink | No Comments | February 19th, 2007 | Trackback

Some government agencies and companies have previously been embarrassed after people found undeleted date on their disposed computers. Learn from their lesson!

If YOU have something to hide, make sure that everything is completely deleted before you trash that hard drive. You need not go to lengths like doing some sure physical damage (not that easy with metal). All you need to do is to download Darik’s Boot and Nuke.

“Darik’s Boot and Nuke (”DBAN”) is a self-contained boot floppy that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

DBAN is a means of ensuring due diligence in computer recycling, a way of preventing identity theft if you want to sell a computer, and a good way to totally clean a Microsoft Windows installation of viruses and spyware. DBAN prevents or thoroughly hinders all known techniques of hard disk forensic analysis.”

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