[rescue] Re: nuking from orbit

[Scott Newell]

>After reading all the posts on data recovery I am reminded of something
>I thought of a while back...
>A Big Ass Electro Magnet (BAEM)... :)
>Put that around the drive after you've sanitized it and let it sit there
>for a couple days.

Thermite, anyone?  :-)

What about data retention in non-volatile ram (some disk caches), ordinary
SRAM, or even (possibly?) DRAM?  I've had SRAM retain data through short
power cycles before.  Do CPUs wipe the on-chip I&D caches before executing
code?


newell