[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Dave McGuire]

On August 28, Jeremy Nielson wrote:
> 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.

  They've been doing this for quite some time.  I first heard about it
at least six years ago.

       -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Laurel, MD