GitHub - PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64: Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe
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Shredos Disk Eraser 64 bit for all Intel 64 bit processors as well as processors from AMD and other vendors which make compatible 64 bit chips. ShredOS - Secure disk erasure/wipe - PartialVolume/sh...

ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe.

  • @Deckweiss
    1•3 days ago

    I agree that it is worth it at scale, but for a freelancer it won’t make much financial difference getting a new drive after a project.

    • @x00zEnglish
      1•3 days ago

      GDPR laws are a big part of it. It’s illegal to not protect the privacy of your customers. We even shipped the erased disks to a specialized company.

      But also, the only way for this whole “just get them a new disk” to be profitable is if you resell the old disks as new disks. Which just sounds like evil capitalism to me.

      • @Deckweiss
        2•2 days ago

        I don’t think we are arguing about the same scenario at all.

        Here is an example of what I have in mind:

        1. I work as a freelancer on a customers project.
        2. In my computer I have an 128G NVME (15$) which is seperate from my OS where I put the data the customer entrusted me with and the project files
        3. After the project, I take that NVME out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one (15$) for the next project
        4. Some time after project completion, I can either trash the drives or send them in bulk to some data erasure service, or leave them on my shelf for ever.

        As opposed to

        1. After the project, I take that NVME-1 out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one for the next project (NVME-2)
        2. for the project after that, I again take out NVME-2 and put it on a sheld, I get NVME-1 from my shelf, put it in, run secure erase for multiple hours before I can start working on the next project.

        My argument is, that the cost of the first process is negligible compared to the effort and hassle of the second process, for a freelancer that earns over 6x the cost of such drive per hour.

        • @x00zEnglish
          3•2 days ago

          My scenario was indeed handling the drives of customers themselves.

          For your scenario I would just use some encrypted filesystem.