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.

  • @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•3 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.