[rescue] nuking from orbit

[G W Adkins]

> 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