[AusNOG] Preparing 100s of routers for resale

[hannah commodore]

On 12/04/2012, at 20:43, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:

> I suppose you could always try to do some destructive writes. Generate
> some files from /dev/random that are the same size as the free space
> on nvram: or flash: etc and copy them over. That should hopefully
> overwrite any evidence of any files that might have existed. :-)

To be quite honest, I'm surprised these devices are being sent to us without first being scrubbed. They are coming from a vic.gov.au agency. Surely they would have a policy and procedure for wiping data already.