How should I securely wipe data from a hard drive?

DBAN is just fine. Here’s the dirty little secret–any program that overwrites every byte of the drive will have wiped everything permanently. You don’t need to do multiple passes with different write patterns, etc.

Don’t believe me? See the standing challenge to prove that a drive overwritten with 0s once can be recovered. Nobody seems willing to take up the challenge. http://16systems.com/zero.php

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