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Subject:    Re: Macintosh wiping
From:       "Robert Reed" <rreed567 () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2005-03-11 15:53:51
Message-ID: 003f01c52652$860ed560$8f01080a () pd ! ci ! tucson ! az ! us
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I Think DBAN (Derik's boot and nuke) had been mentioned before...... there
is a CD ISO for PowerPC arch that has been contributed on source
forge..(http://dban.sourceforge.net/ ).. this is an awesome tool for your
use. it is open source, and allows you to boot into the environment and do
simple disk wiping or more elaborate DOD type multiple random wipes.
With the use of this tool you can boot from the CD tell it which method to
wipe  and let it go, That frees you, or your disk wiping lackey to do other
stuff.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Forensics @ TracingEmails" <forensics@tracingemails.com>
To: <forensics@securityfocus.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 1:25 PM
Subject: RE: Macintosh wiping


> For ease & speed I think what I would do is clean one drive then install a
> clean MAC operating system upon it, then image that. (All drive wiping
progs
> will wipe a hard drive so a MAC OS ((drive)) is no different).
>
> After that first one; with the other drives, I'd throw them into a box and
> wipe as many as I could at the same time then use the image I created to
> restore all of the drives (or use that and wipe) so they are clean but
still
> working for the school to simply plug them in.
>
> Whilst there must be software available to just wipe all the drives in
their
> own systems (that I'm personally not conversant with,) taking the case
apart
> also allows you to see if there's another (unconnected) drive in there,,
and
> for the time it takes you may as well restore a MAC OS on the drives (for
> free) to make everyone happy.
>
>
> Bottom line is I think it may depend upon how many machines your talking
> about. If your talking Lot's & Lot's I applaud you guys for donating the
> equipment to the schools.
>
> But nothing is easy or free in life is it  :-)
>
>
>
> Best Regards - Ian
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