{"id":367,"date":"2015-03-29T02:09:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulbegley.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:09:46","slug":"software-to-securely-erase-hard-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Software to securely erase hard drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did some R&amp;D for my brother and wanted to document the best options for securely erasing hard drives for sale or donation.<\/p>\n<p>Disc Wipe Utility \u2013 Windows executable and source (should compile on UNIX\/Linux systems).<br \/><a title=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/disc-wipe\/\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/disc-wipe\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/disc-wipe\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eraser \u2013 Windows scrub utility<br \/><a title=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/eraser\/\" href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/eraser\/\">http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/eraser\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>diskscrub \u2013 UNIX source code<br \/><a title=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/diskscrub\/\" href=\"https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/diskscrub\/\">https:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/diskscrub\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did some R&amp;D for my brother and wanted to document the best options for securely erasing hard drives for sale or donation. Disc Wipe Utility \u2013 Windows executable and source (should compile on UNIX\/Linux systems).http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/disc-wipe\/ Eraser \u2013 Windows scrub utilityhttp:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/eraser\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/?p=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YWFc-5V","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paulbegley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}