====How to electronically eradicate, expunge, extirpate, obliterate digital data====

===Partitions===
All data on drive X may be **{{color c="red" text="permanently destroyed"}}** by using the following command (warning - this may take a very long time): %%dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX%%
Confirmation of whether or not any non-zero bytes exist: %%dd if=/dev/sdX | hexdump -C | grep [^00]%%
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65509

===Individual files===
Individual files may be made permanently inaccessible by:
~-[[ccrypt encrypting]] them first
~-then, deleting them in the usual way, e.g.: %%shred -uvz <file>%%

====How to physically eradicate, expunge, extirpate, obliterate digital data====

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqyc37aOqT0


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