Day: January 17, 2010
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Ubuntu: Securely Erase Hard Drive with “shred”
On Windows, I used the free program Eraser to wipe hard drives when I was finished with them. I looked for a while for something similar for Ubuntu Linux but couldn’t find any programs like Eraser. Turns out, however, that this functionality is built into the operating system, though it is command-line only. Here’s an…