[rescue] nuking from orbit

[Greg]

G W Adkins wrote:

> This is ridiculous.  1 low-level format/verify pass from a real utility, and
> the data's GONE...  Forever.


It's gone for the average person but there are companies that will 
charge a lot of money to recover data from those conditions and people
will pay for it when the data has a high cost associated with it.
And, of course, certain government agencies that might need to
recover data from damaged media...

This makes for interesting reading and has lots of useful references:

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

-greg