thib wrote:
Just to drop my two cents, since no one did before: Merely zeroing is not enough [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence
And if you see the notes: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/overwritten-data-guttman.html "Since writing the above, I have noticed a comment attributed to Gutmann conceeding that overwritten sectors on "modern" (post 2003?) drives can not be read by the techniques outlined in the 1996 paper, but he does not withdraw the overwrought claims of the paper with respect to older drives." -- Odd