On 7/30/08 5:30 PM, in article tomstiller-ED3FB7.18302930072008@news.verizon.net, "Tom Stiller" <tomstiller@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <noemailhere-F9BBB5.17123730072008@news.mts.net>, > The NewGuy <noemailhere@please.comm> wrote: > >> When you zero out the data it can take quite a while. Several passes >> takes hours for most hard drives. I was wondering if it helps the >> security aspect to change the partitioning scheme in Disk Utility. One >> could partition in Guid then Apple Partition Map then MBR in less than a >> minute. But does it make any difference in the ability for others to >> extract data off the hard drive? If not, is there another way of >> quickly making a hard drive difficult to read without zeroing out data? > > No. Forensic techniques don't rely, or even need, partition data. If > you want a fast way to securely delete all the data on the drive, > dismantle it and destroy the platters. I find my method more satisfying and tension-relieving.
