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Re: [SLE] wipe, clean, etc
- From: John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 23:22:28 -0900
- Message-id: <200412062322.28986.jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Monday 06 December 2004 09:30 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
> There have been articles written about this. It seems you can never
> completely delete data stored on hard drives, they claim it is always
> possible to recover it using magnetic inference analysis of the drive,
But NOBODY has ever publicly demonstrated it beyond a SINGLE
overwrite, and even in those cases they were trying to recover
a TINY segment of KNOWN content. (They knew what it used
to say).
Its an urban myth.
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John Andersen
> There have been articles written about this. It seems you can never
> completely delete data stored on hard drives, they claim it is always
> possible to recover it using magnetic inference analysis of the drive,
But NOBODY has ever publicly demonstrated it beyond a SINGLE
overwrite, and even in those cases they were trying to recover
a TINY segment of KNOWN content. (They knew what it used
to say).
Its an urban myth.
--
_____________________________________
John Andersen
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