[olug] Security breach?

[Sam Flint]

i'd get a new drive, and degauss the old one after backing up, and
sanitizing...a microwave should do the trick...

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Aric Aasgaard <aric at omahax.com> wrote:
> IDK if you have an EFI motherboard you might have to just put thermite on it
> and a new computer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Kevin
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 11:37 AM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Security breach?
>
> I have to say that I agree with Dan. The whole point of HDDs is to give you
> back what you most recently stored there. So if you most recently stored a
> partition table that you trust, then that's what the HDD will give you. This
> points to a filesystem that you trust(because that's what you most recently
> wrote), which has on it a known clean system(because you wrote it *after*
> the reinstall), then you will have a good system.
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Dan Anderson <dan-anderson at cox.net> wrote:
>> What do you call it?
>>
>>> the only way you will be sure it is clean is wipe the drive (using
>>> DBAN) and reinstall.
>>
>>> Will you sleep comfortably at night, trusting your system was
>>> cleaned? Or would you like to be SURE you are clean?
>>
>> And now you're adding a dose of "I could tell you but I'd have to kill
> you"?
>>
>> What's bad form is starting FUDdy rumors about DBAN being required to
>> remove viruses.
>>
>> Too bad about that cookie though.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:59 PM, irish.masms <irish.masms at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> On 6/6/12 9:10 PM, Dan Anderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nice FUD Irish...
>>>
>>>
>>> Please do not throw the FUD around on someone offering their opinion,
>>> on the public mailing list. bad from, no cookie for you.
>>>
>>> In dealing with many IR situations, there were those that the only
>>> safe way to clean it up was a full wipe and then re-image. Sorry if
>>> you do not believe me, and no I can not elaborate.
>>>
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