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  • Darik's Boot and Nuke: A great tool for obliterating your data

    09/29/2005 8:08:22 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 18 replies · 12,175+ views
    NewsForge ^ | 28 September 2005 | Lee A. Spain
    Do you know what happened to your data when you disposed of your last PC? With identity theft on the rise, it's important to make sure your information is removed before you get rid of that old hard drive. Thanks to the work of developer Darik Horn, there's an excellent tool to wipe data off of a hard disk: Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). When DBAN is finished with your hard drives, the master boot record, partition table, and every sector of the drive will have been overwritten in accordance with one of five well-regarded industry guidelines. DBAN is powerful...