Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk

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Subject: Re: 'Shredding' a hard disk
From: "Ian D. Stewart" <idstewart@compuvative.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 10:38:29 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 20020613103829.G16852@dad.columbus.rr.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] E823FA92099E6C4C854CE791DFA1A3D2DC14AE@got02.vikingtelecom.com>; from jan.johansson@viking-telecom.com on Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 09:16:31 -0400
References: <[🔎] E823FA92099E6C4C854CE791DFA1A3D2DC14AE@got02.vikingtelecom.com>

On 2002.06.13 09:16 Jan Johansson wrote:

> I remember reading about a data recovery team that recovered
> files after
> the data had supposedly been removed with a 'dd' command like above.

www.ibas.no they claim to be able to see under 3 layers of overwrites.
And since they are a public contractor.. wonder what the not-so-public
people can do.

When I was in the (US) Navy, a hard drive that contained classifieddata wasn't considered clean until after 7 swipes.



Ian


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