Additional wishes. =)
dajhorn said:
Not yet. Trashing filesystems is on the wishlist.
Here's my partial wishlist:
1. Wipe filesystem (FAT, NTFS, Linux?) only with options for variations. Example: Wipe filesystem and directories with PRNG 10 times, then quit.
2. Combine that with wiping the rest of the data in any style.
Example of 1+2 = Wipe filesystems with PRNG 20 times, then wipe rest of data 2 times.
Question: Filesystem wipe should be relatively quick, correct?
Another wishlist: wipe drive every number of sectors, example: wipe drive for 1 kilobyte every megabyte. Purpose is to quick nuke encrypted filesystems. Encrypted data usually needs the entire file, but wiping parts of it can render the entire system unusable. If I have two minutes to wipe my drive, this is what I would do short of getting my hammer and pound the thing, (as the cops running in my door, as an example only; watch movies Enemy of the State and Conspiracy Theory, hehehe.)
Modified filewipe wish: wipe first 2k of files in a normal filesystem. (this may be a suggestion better for the Eraser windows program.) Since many files will not function when the first few bytes are altered, such as zip files, rar files, even documents such as word docs or excel files, most probably a quick kill function such as this may prove useful for the average user who is not super-duper-three letter org paranoid. I just want something that quickly nukes my drive in 10 seconds or something. I have actually created a small program to do this (one file at a time.) You zero out the first 2000 bytes of a wav, mov, mpeg, jpeg, avi, and most people will never be able to view it.
Variation filewipe wish: wipe every other 20k of the file or something like that. Same reasoning. Merely corrupts the file.
if filesystem unable to determine, then
wipe first 100 megabytes, 1 pass, = kills filesystem in 2 seconds.
wipe last 100 megabytes, 1 pass = kills maybe backup filesystem, norton index?
Windows XP allows for some programs to perform boot stuff. Example is PerfectDisk offline boot defragmentation. Could there be a Windows XP Boot Nuke operation that does what I want? Basically, here is how I want it to work:
1. initiate reboot and nuke. assuming confirmed (dangerous if not)
2. schedules a wipe on reboot.
3. reboots (shuts down everything.)
4. on reboot, begins wiping all filesystems. (1 or 2 seconds)
5. wipes end of the drive. (1 or 2 seconds)
6. wipes from beginning to end. (1 or 2 hours)
These 3rd party defraggers could do the job if they were programmed to write zeros instead of moving the pagefile, directories, etc.
