By Garth Jones
Similar to many IT professionals, I often receive requests from friends and family about how to wipe sensitive data from old computers.
Usually what I suggest, and do myself, is to pull the hard drive out and stock pile it. I know this isn’t always the most practical or secure solution, although it reminds me of my time with a federal government department and how my lab was used to store dead hard drives, but I digress…
Anyways, I did some research and found two programs that seem to be good at wiping hard drives clean. I haven’t used them personally, so I cannot confirm whether or not they work.
Darik’s Boot and Nuke
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/
Fast Wipe
http://sourceforge.net/projects/fwip/
What do you use to wipe clean a hard drive? Let me know by sending a tweet to @GarthMJ.
