You can script as much of this as you want.

1: boot a linux live image (CD, Thumbdrive, PXE)
2: mkdir /mnt/backup
3: mount //someserver/someshare /mnt/backup

Copy the raw device to the network share. We'll use ddrescue rather than DD so that it finishes even if the HDD has issues. You'll also get a nice log of the issues.
4: ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/backup/someName-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.img /mnt/backup/someName-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.log

Wipe the disk
5: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M

If you would like to see the data in the image
6: fdisk -l /mnt/backup/someName-someDate.img --- Note the sector size and start. Multiply these together. Example is 512(size)x2048(start)=1048576

Mount the raw image and take a peek
7: mkdir /mnt/raw
8: mount -o ro,loop,offset=1048576 /mnt/backup/someName-someDate.img /mnt/raw
9: ls -l /mnt/raw

Restore the data to the drive
10: dd if=/mnt/backup/someName-someDate.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M

You can then compress the image file to save some space on the server.

Speaking of reality check, From the TFA:

This gent has obviously never worked in the mobile industry.

Congratulations. You are now wiser than you were prior to accepting the position which you now fill. The next time you interview for a company, which sounds like it may be soon given your current situation, you will now possess an assorted list of queries when the interviewer asks, "Do you have any questions regarding the position or the company?".

I'm sorry, but after reading the article, it appears that they will be charging money for information that should be, and probably already is, available to the general public.

I call shenanigans!

I would be interested to know why people would pay money to change the geography of their Internet servers when they could simply switch to a darknet. I'd recommend trying Freenet for a while and see if you have any complaints besides it being slower than the observable Internet.

I'm genuinely interested in why more people do not take this approach.

The rage comes in when you're already working at 95% capacity, and something simple turns into the mother of all clusterfuck-abortions. For example: You "renew" a Verisign class3 cert, only to find out that the "renewed" cert is in fact an entirely "new" cert because Verisign changed out its intermediate CA. So a drop in file replacement becomes:

Adding the new intermediate and hash symlink to the apache truststore
Adding a FileChain directive to all affected vhosts
Notifying all of your customers that they need to update their truststores in the next 30 days if they wish to continue doing business with you
Realizing that you're going to have to repeat this maintenance for all 400 Verisign certs for the next year (because business partners require yearly renewals)
Having to go through your companies bullshit change-management process, rather than using the rubber stamp renewal template that you spent 2 days creating.
And worst of all, trying to explain all of this to your manager, who has no understanding of the concepts "encryption" and "trust".
5-10 minutes (renew, propagate file, roll apache servers, update asset management) becomes a Full time job for one year.

The majority of which could have been avoided if they had followed your advice "7 years ago" and shelled out for a wildcard cert.

You've hit several of the nails on the head, but seem to have missed a couple.

We already have laws that charge fines for "Driving while Distracted" and "Dangerous Driving". If an officer sees that you are driving while distracted, and it appears that you are a danger to yourself and/or others, he can issue a ticket.

I want to take a moment to appeal to your sense of justice and remove the word "punishment" from consideration. You can't punish an adult human. It just doesn't work. What does work is restitution (for the victim) and rehabilitation (for the criminal).

When you get caught driving distracted, you get a ticket. Get another, you'll have the insurance increase and defensive driving course. Rack up enough and your public driving privileges get revoked. The existing laws are fully sufficient. No need for additional (unnecessary) bans on tech.

Hi there, The youtube video contains the qualifier "2: Both cars were moving at 40mph for a combined speed of 80mph". This is not correct. Both cars were moving at 40mph for a combined speed of 40mph. Whether you're hitting an immovable brick wall at 40mph, or an object of equal mass and velocity moving at the opposite direction, you're still accelerating from 40mph to 0mph (a 40mph crash).

BBH

From TFA:

They also destroyed three decades worth of handwritten research notes by a NASA scientist that had been locked in the safe.

Nasa locked a research scientist in the safe for 30 years?

@ Will be interesting to see what malware creators do to get around this ..."

Attrib -w? Flip the Writeprotect dword in StorageDevicePolicies?

BBH