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Date and Time
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Location
MIT Building E-51, Room 325
Presenter
Federico Lucifredi - flucifredi acm org
Summary
Using Linux to securely erase hard drives
Abstract
With $30 in new hardware, inventiveness and some Perl and Shell glue, we design and build from scratch a Linux based, secure disk-deletion rig exceeding the requirements of several industry standards for data wiping.
About Federico Lucifredi
Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation. Previously, Federico has been a CTO and a network software architect at '.com' and embedded Linux startups, and he has spent two years teaching in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, while simultaneously consulting for MIT. He is a frequent speaker at user group and conference events, notably the OSCON, LinuxWorld and IMPlanet conferences, where he was a panelist representing the Jabber community. Federico is a recognized expert in computing performance issues, and consults pro-bono with Standard and Poor's clients interested in Free/Open Source Software technical and strategic issues. He participated in the GPL v3 drafting process in the large-corporation panel.
