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How to electronically eradicate, expunge, extirpate, obliterate digital data
Partitions
All data on drive X may be permanently destroyed by using the following command (the drive must be unmounted first, which means that a LiveDVD or LiveUSB is useful in this case (warning - this will take a very long time):dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX
Confirmation of whether or not any non-zero bytes exist:
dd if=/dev/sda | hexdump -C | grep [^00]
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Single files
Single files may be made permanently inaccessible by:- either ccrypt encrypting them before deleting them in the usual way
- or using the dd command
How to physically eradicate, expunge, extirpate, obliterate digital data
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0
