hmm, good point. I guess I just need to be reasonably sure. B-) On Monday 06 December 2004 08:50 am, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
This isn't sufficient for a sufficiently determined and resourceful adversary. E.g. the intelligence services of major countries and corporations.
Magnetic disks are analog, not digital. E.g., setting a bit to 1 then 0 results in a slightly different magnetization levels and spatial patterns than setting it to 0 twice.
Jeffrey
Quoting Brad Bourn
: Isn't there a way to set all unused parts of the drive to 0's?
B-)
On Monday 06 December 2004 08:35 am, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 06 December 2004 16:16, Brad Bourn wrote:
Is there a simple command I can run to make sure that the data on the drive after I delete the source code dir is completely gone?
You might want to have a look at 'wipe', which is on your CDs/DVD. But note that nothing will completely delete your data if someone with enough money wants to get at it. You'd have to physically destroy the drive to ensure it properly