Talk:Data Security

I don't think this system/explanation is in a place to promote quite yet. We're on the way, but we're not there yet.

I feel we're about a month out from having a system we can really brag about, once we have our chain of custody and physical security end in shape, And even then, part of that system will involve wording that shields us from liability and offers tools for a donor to take matters into their own hands. We have Dban disks available. Would be good to have a video tutorial as to how to use the disk on the web (or written explan.). Also need a plan for donors of Macs (dban doesn't work).

Good to detail other steps donors can take, such as bringing drives and other data-containing devices in separately (meaning removed from cases, not buried in a box full of stuff, allow them to drop phones, etc. into the box themselves).

I think working toward a brochure (for tabling, fd, receiving) to accompany dban discs, a revision of web page on the subject, and possibly a video tutorial on the web would be good steps. Tonyc 05:26, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

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Isnt DD enough to wipe any drive. I'm pretty sure one or 2 passes of /dev/random would be fine. see: here for info on this. If we do anything beyond Zeroing we are already beyond whats needed.

Also all ATA hard drives made since about 2001 have a built in feature called "secure erase" which we (or the user) can run from a boot disk. This is also impossible to recover data from after its been used. See: here

Both of these methods are more then enough to prevent any identity thief from recovery data.

I will look into making video and text tutorials on all of these methods including dban.(Evilgold 20:52, 26 April 2009 (UTC))