The Great Zero Challenge

[Dave Howe]

Peter Sommer wrote:
> Mary Hawking wrote:
>>
>> Data erasure programs seem to be both inefficient and expensive!
> 
> You don't need to use dd, which is a command-line unix facility.   You
> can't use a Unix/Linux machine with dd on it to wipe a Windows machine
> because there would need to be some sort of network or serial connection
> between the two - and which would get deleted and therefore be
> inoperable before the disk wiping was completed.

but you CAN use a bootable live cd or floppy of linux to do so - in
fact, dban referenced below is such a bootable linux kernel.