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Erasing a drive using DC3DD

We've seen the power of DC3DD as a very impressive forensic acquisition tool, but I'd also like to go one step further and introduce you to its capabilities as a data wiping tool. DC3DD can wipe data and erase drives by overwriting data in three ways:

Overwriting and filling the data and drives with zeroes. The command used is dc3dd wipe=/dev/sdb:

Overwriting and filling the data and drives using a hexadecimal pattern using the pat option. The command used is dc3dd wipe=/dev/sdb pat=000111:

Overwriting and filling ...

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