[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Linc Fessenden]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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

I wouldn't worry too much.. These days most of the "company" people are PC
geeks..  Want to really scramble them?  Keep all your "secret stuff" on
old 8bit machines!  Ever try and read encrypted data off of a TRS-80 or
Commodore Vic-20 tape on a PC? :-)