Plug USB. Boot. Wait. Done.

Zero-touch bootable USB that wipes every internal disk and leaves a verified report behind.
The open-source DBAN alternative for internet cafés, offices and school labs.

⬇ Download fastborn.iso (v1.0)  ·  ▶ Live demo  ·  Türkçe

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Caution

Irreversible. Booting a machine from this stick wipes all of its internal disks — auto mode has no confirmation prompt. Never plug it into the wrong machine. The boot stick itself is excluded automatically (removable=1), and you get a 5-second window (Ctrl+C) before erasure starts.

Quick start

Step	What to do
1. Download	fastborn.iso — ~20 MB
2. Write to USB	Windows: Rufus in DD Image mode · macOS: sudo dd if=fastborn.iso of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m · Linux: sudo dd if=fastborn.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
3. Boot	Plug in → power on → walk away

Plug USB → Power on → GRUB menu (3s) → Quick Erase auto-starts
→ All disks wiped in parallel → Verified → JSON log written to USB → Auto reboot
→ Pull USB → Insert OS install media → Install

Verify the download (SHA-256)

6f1380a91a61bec991f5e6787a75df8b62c86ed69685c9539fdd86d9bf6a29dc  fastborn.iso

shasum -a 256 fastborn.iso      # macOS
sha256sum fastborn.iso          # Linux
certutil -hashfile fastborn.iso SHA256   # Windows

See it work

_{Simulation of a Full (DoD 7-pass) wipe. Try it yourself in the interactive wipe lab.}

Erase modes

GRUB waits 3 seconds. Touch nothing and Quick mode starts; choose Full from the menu for sensitive data.

	Quick (default)	Full
Method	1-pass zero fill (0x00)	DoD 5220.22-M, 7 passes via nwipe
Pattern	0x00	0x00 → 0xFF → RND → 0x00 → 0xFF → RND → RND
Time (80 GB)	~15–20 min	~2+ hours
Best for	Internet cafés, offices, labs — also clears boot-sector malware	Drives that held sensitive data
Log method	quick-1pass-zero	full-dod522022m-7pass

Features

• Zero-touch — plug in, power on, don't touch anything
• Parallel wipe — every internal disk at once: SATA, HDD, SSD and NVMe
• Verification pass — reads back 100 random sectors per disk after the wipe
• JSON report — one log per disk written to the stick under /fastborn-logs/
• Auto-reboot — 5-second countdown when done; pull the stick and install the OS
• BIOS + UEFI — one hybrid ISO, boots from USB or CD
• ~20 MB, runs from RAM — target disks are never touched during boot
• Boot-stick protection — removable devices (removable=1) are always skipped
• Modern kernel — Linux 6.6 LTS

Why FastBorn?

DBAN was sold to Blancco and frozen on an ancient kernel; nwipe is great but isn't bootable on its own. FastBorn wraps a modern kernel and nwipe into a stick you can hand to anyone.

Feature	FastBorn	DBAN	nwipe
Zero-touch (plug & run)	✅	❌	❌
NVMe support	✅	❌	✅
Quick mode (1-pass)	✅	❌	✅
JSON erasure report	✅	❌	❌
Verification pass	✅	❌	❌
Auto-reboot	✅	❌	❌
Modern kernel	✅ 6.6 LTS	❌ 2.6.x	~ distro
Bootable ISO	✅	✅	❌ needs ShredOS
Active development	✅	❌	✅

Erasure report

Written automatically to the stick under /fastborn-logs/, one file per disk:

{
  "tool": "FastBorn v1.0",
  "timestamp": "2026-03-20T14:30:00Z",
  "hostname": "PC-042",
  "disk": {
    "device": "/dev/sda",
    "model": "WDC WD5000AAKX",
    "serial": "WD-ABC123",
    "size": "465GB",
    "size_bytes": 500107862016
  },
  "erasure": {
    "method": "quick-1pass-zero",
    "mode": "quick",
    "duration_seconds": 1024,
    "status": "success"
  },
  "verification": {
    "result": "PASS",
    "sectors_checked": 100
  }
}

Roadmap — V2

V2 is in development and rebuilds FastBorn around fail-closed safety and verifiable evidence:

• Native sanitize — NVMe Format / Sanitize and ATA Sanitize, with full readback for HDD overwrites
• Hardware qualification — an exact-match, default-deny registry of approved device profiles
• Parallel coordinator — failure-isolated workers driven by a hashed, frozen execution manifest
• Signed evidence — detached Ed25519 report signatures and NIST Appendix C aligned sanitization certificates

Note

V2 is not a qualified release yet. Use v1.0 for real work today.

Writing to USB (detailed)

Windows — Rufus (recommended)

1. Download Rufus (portable, no install)
2. Plug in the USB stick
3. In Rufus:
   • Device: your USB stick
   • Boot selection: "Disk or ISO image" → SELECT → fastborn.iso
   • Partition scheme: MBR
   • Target system: BIOS or UEFI
   • Click START
4. When prompted, choose DD Image mode → OK

Windows — balenaEtcher

1. Download Etcher
2. "Flash from file" → fastborn.iso
3. "Select target" → your USB stick
4. "Flash!"

macOS

diskutil list                                   # find the USB disk number
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/diskX                 # X = disk number
sudo dd if=fastborn.iso of=/dev/rdiskX bs=1m status=progress   # rdisk = faster
diskutil eject /dev/diskX

Linux

lsblk                                           # find the USB device
sudo dd if=fastborn.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=1M status=progress conv=fsync

Build from source

Requires Docker Desktop.

git clone https://github.com/badursun/Fastborn.git
cd Fastborn
chmod +x build.sh
./build.sh

Output: output/fastborn.iso

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Provided as is, with no warranty; use at your own risk.

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