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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:18:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@sohara.org>
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Subject: Re: zero filling a storage device (was: dd and mbr)
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2022, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

>
> 	I gather that military specs for deleting really secure data
> involve thermite.

Actually they use big expensive "shredders." I'm pretty sure.


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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org