[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch]

G W Adkins, reeling from the shock, managed on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 07:38:04PM -0500 to scrawl:
Message: 15
> From: "G W Adkins" <gwadkins at erols.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] nuking from orbit
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:08:48 -0400
> Reply-To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> 
> 
> > I remember reading something about a year, maybe year and a half ago,
> about
> > a system the FBI or the NSA had devised, that could grab data from a
> > magnetic medium, despite protective measures taken.
> >
> > The example given, was typical paranoid types wipe the disk and write
> > consecutive zero's over the disk 7-10 times.  And the process could still
> > glean like 70% of the data afterwards.
> >
> This is ridiculous.  1 low-level format/verify pass from a real utility, and
> the data's GONE...  Forever.
> 
> George
> 


Oh Yeah? 

Feast yer eyeballs upon:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html


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