s3nate... d/l 'material' is your business - doesn't bother me what you d/l, I was just giving that as a possible alternative for renegade rather than saying thats what you are doing. however wanting to erase CC numbers etc is quite understandable if you ask me

eraser is quite capable of erasing the whole drive using the CLI - takes a LONG time though especially if were talking HD sizes of greater than 20GB - you need to wipe it a minimum of 7 times for reasonable security.... gutman reckons minimum of 35 passes for a clean wipe but I think in this case thats overkill (even 7 passes is probably overkill in this case TBH - but like Mox pointed out- depends what your erasing and who from ). Yes it is always possible to recover info even from a wiped disk - depends on how much time and money you're willing to spend recovering the info though... as with encryption you can make it impractical to recover information. The only sure way to erase the data forever is to totally and completely destroy the disk platters - melting them down is a good plan

Never used kill disk so can't help you on that score - sorry.

DBAN may also be worth checking out if you are after full disk wiping software

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

by the way - check the FAQ for this product out.... some useful follow up info for the original gutman paper
http://dban.sourceforge.net/faq/index.html

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