similar to: OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

> Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it >> yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a >> dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do

On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: >> > >> > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We

James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. > > Around

Probably too late for consideration at this point, but there are Enterprise Class SSDs available with DoD/NSA certified/approved self encryption capability. The concept is that encryption is a hardware feature of the drive, when you want to dispose of it, you throw away the key. This allows vendors to receive broken drives back from GOV/MIL clients securely so that failure methods can be

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: > > > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > > > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a

On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 15:46 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple > sectors many times to 'even the writes'. This allows for even a 'dead' > disk to be disassembled with 'off-the-shelf' equipment to extract > items from the dead places. Depending on the data involved, there may > be

On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple sectors many times to

On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or > DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them > deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them > yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now. Does anyone use hdparm's

Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking as private citizen. Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet can't know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. Around here, I give the disks to my local computer support who in turn

I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this reasonable for it to be taking this long...? mark

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > >>> Good evening from Singapore! > >>> > >>> The foremost question which I want to ask

Is there a utility to zero unused blocks on a disk? CentOS 6.7/Ext4 I saw zerofree, but I?m not sure it would work on Ext4 or even work on this version of CentOS. thanks, -wes

Hi, I have a wishlist item. Is there an appropriate place for me to post it? Basically, I would like to know that my email isn't recoverable from the local disk on the mail server after I delete it. So instead of just deleting the file from my Maildir, I'd like the option to exist for Dovecot to shred it.. Ie, overwrite the file with random data and/or null bytes before deletion. In the

Good evening from Singapore! The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual name used) had *promised* our customer Leave Me in the Lurch (S) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used)

Hello, On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good evening from Singapore! > > > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name

Hi, I have a dozen of drives, ranging from 10Gb to 200Gb. I want to wipe them clean before donating them. I have a IDE/SATA to USB converter that works. I can see the drives properly. DBAN does not currently support external USB drive. Any other alternatives? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

The first patch in this set was submitted in January but never ACK'd. The following three are follow on patches to fix other issues that have come up.

John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 10:13 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> If I had realized it would run this long, I would have used DBAN.... For >> single drives, I do, and choose DoD 5220.22-M (seven passes), which is >> *way* overkill these days... but I sign my name to a certificate that >> gets stuck on the outside of the server, meaning I, personally, am

On Thu, May 10, 2018 12:00, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > On the other hand... static, and unchanging, right, and how many > minutes of Amazon S3 will it take to break the encryption? None. If it is NSA certified there will be a backdoor. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor

Hi, I am considering installing several `servers' in a facility that needs to conform with the products listed at: DSD Approved Products http://www.dsd.gov.au/infosec/evaluation_services/epl/dap.html As far as i can see freebsd performs above and beyond, for all the required criteria in the act. Can we see freebsd listed as an approved product in the near future? Best Regards, Jason - RF