From: Temple Fugate <templefugate@...>
Subject: RE: [PPCUniverse] Re: THE GREAT DRIVE WIPING CONTROVERSY SETTLED AT LAST, WHAT DO YOU THINK ?
To: PPCUniverse@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, 11:48 PM

 

 

Brian.

I “bumped” into you on a Microsoft group a few weeks ago.

I Googled a weird  error message I got setting up my Gmail in Outlook.

Several others came to the same forum looking for help with it.

I figured out that the error came from running the auto-config on the IMAP Gmail account.

I went back and tried to manually con-fig and got the error.

I suspected there might be a conflict in running both set ups so I rebooted and everything went smoothly.

I just ran the manual config and Gmail was in like a flint. You answered the post and I said to myself that name seems familiar.

Then it dawned on me that I knew you from this group.

BTW if anyone from the group needs Outlook or Office, I sell Office on eBay.

If it’s ok with the mods have them forward the e-mail to me directly.

Paul

 

From: PPCUniverse@ yahoogroups. com [mailto:PPCUniverse @yahoogroups. com] On Behalf Of Brian Tillman
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:39 AM
To: PPCUniverse@ yahoogroups. com
Subject: [PPCUniverse] Re: THE GREAT DRIVE WIPING CONTROVERSY SETTLED AT LAST, WHAT DO YOU THINK ?

 

--- In PPCUniverse@ yahoogroups. com, Luna Maya <lunamaya_81@ ...> wrote:

> How many times do you have to overwrite a hard drive in order to
> securely wipe it?

Back when I worked on a classified project, the U.S. DOD required three passes; one with all zeros, one with all ones, and one with a random pattern, verified by a read pass. There are plenty of studies that show one pass may not be enough unless performed with the disk drive's internal secure erase function, which also overwrites non-user-accessible sectors.
--
Brian Tillman