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getsat on Jan 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page

I have a script that mounts a tiny ramdisk, fetches a statically compiled shred binary I've compiled, and proceeds to shred each disk attached to the system up to 25 times. I generally use this when decommissioning servers not under my direct control.

drivebyacct2 on Jan 15, 2011 [–]

Couldn't you just use DBAN? http://www.dban.org/

getsat on Jan 16, 2011 | [–]

I can't remotely boot servers using a custom disk image unless the provider in question offers KVM-over-IP or something similar.

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