Even after erased and written over, data can be retrieved. The only sure way of ensuring data cannot be retrieved is to place the hard drive in a furnace and reduce it to molten metal.
Even after erased and written over, data can be retrieved. The only sure way of ensuring data cannot be retrieved is to place the hard drive in a furnace and reduce it to molten metal.The NSA reports that a commercial data recovery outfit has retrieved files overwritten 8 times.
The NSA can retrieve perhaps twice that, or 16 times.
However, ERASER, available as FREEWARE on the Web, can be configured to use the 35 pass Gutman wipe, or, in the alternate, 99 pass random overwrites for compressed drives.
I'm surprised they didn't have a "file destruction" policy in place!!
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05/04/2003 7:47:15 PM PDT by
Lael
(Well, I Guess he DIDN'T go wobbly in the legs!! Now, "W", lets do the REST of the AXIS of EVIL!!)