The right way to wipe an external drive depends heavily on what is inside the enclosure. A Super User thread on reinstalling Linux from a USB stick spells this out clearly, the best way to wipe a ...

I am using all Macs so I've formatted my 512MB USB Thumbdrive w/ HFS+ (Mac OS X). I'm going to sell it to a good friend of mine and I'd like to wipe the drive just as I would if I sold a HD. I ...

A new service called Silver Bullet from encrypted thumb-drive vendor IronKey will let administrators wipe out or lock the data on USB sticks in the field. Silver Bullet is a Web-based service that ...

I need to use software to securely wipe a USB key, and it has to be good enough for specific compliance organizations. All the secure wipe software I've seen only support wiping physical hard drives.