[TriLUG] Use Tails (Linux) or Tor? Your an Extremist

[Scott G. Hall]

On 07/03/2014 02:21 PM, Bill Farrow wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:
>> "Watch out! He's typing `rm -rf /`! He's clearly armed and dangerous! And
>> he's using encryption software (ssh) to connect to that server! Stop that
>> man/woman!"
> "rm -rf /" is probably recoverable by forensics.
>
> This is better:
>   cat /dev/zero | pv | dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M
>
> And for the paranoid:
>   cat /dev/urandom | pv | dd of=/dev/sda bs=1M
>
>

Better yet, do both, one after the other. Then those little residual magnetic
bits will surely be too weak to recover under the cruft....

-- 
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
Scott at HallComm-Inc.Com