Secure Data Deletion Under linux

Date and Time

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Location

MIT Building E-51, Room 325

Presenters

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.

Bio

Federico Lucifredi is The Ceph Storage Product Management Director at Red Hat, formerly the Ubuntu Server PM at Canonical, and the Linux "Systems Management Czar" at SUSE.