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  2. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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    Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

  3. Data erasure - Wikipedia

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    According to the University of California, San Diego Center for Magnetic Recording Research's (now its Center for Memory and Recording Research) "Tutorial on Disk Drive Data Sanitization" (p. 8): "Secure erase does a single on-track erasure of the data on the disk drive. The U.S. National Security Agency published an Information Assurance ...

  4. List of data-erasing software - Wikipedia

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    Name Developer Licensing Operating system required to run Maintained? Supported wipe methods Reports BleachBit: Andrew Ziem and contributors GNU General Public License

  5. Gutmann method - Wikipedia

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    The Gutmann method is an algorithm for securely erasing the contents of computer hard disk drives, such as files.Devised by Peter Gutmann and Colin Plumb and presented in the paper Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory in July 1996, it involved writing a series of 35 patterns over the region to be erased.

  6. HDDerase - Wikipedia

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    HDDerase is a freeware utility that securely erases data on hard drives using the Secure Erase unit command built into the firmware of Parallel ATA and Serial ATA drives manufactured after 2001. [1] HDDerase was developed by the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the University of California, San Diego. HDDerase is designed for command ...

  7. List of commercial video games released as freeware

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    The game is still mentioned as freeware and many forums and sites have the now dead link to the game page. The legal situation now is unclear because the installer has no disclaimer. Area 51 (2005), a first person shooter by Midway Games. Its free release was sponsored by the US Air Force. It later changed hands and its freeware status was removed.

  8. Crypto-shredding - Wikipedia

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    Crypto-shredding is the practice of rendering encrypted data unusable by deliberately deleting or overwriting the encryption keys: assuming the key is not later recovered and the encryption is not broken, the data should become irrecoverable, effectively permanently deleted or "shredded". [1]

  9. Eraser (software) - Wikipedia

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    Eraser securely erases data by overwriting it such that the data is irrecoverable. [1] It supports a variety of data destruction standards, including British HMG IS5 (Infosec Standard 5), American DoD 5220.22-M , and the Gutmann method which features a 35-pass overwrite.