On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:38:27 -0800 "Jason C. Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's interesting to note that Gutmann's earlier work said, loosely > "If you do this, you should be fairly certain you data is > unrecoverable." He now says, "A few passes of random data is as good > as can be expected." Those two standards of performance are very > different. But he goes on to say: "Looking at this from the other point of view, with the ever-increasing data density on disk platters and a corresponding reduction in feature size and use of exotic techniques to record data on the medium, it's unlikely that anything can be recovered from any recent drive except perhaps a single level via basic error-cancelling techniques." So even those few passes of random data are overkill. > I just want to make sure that any given day that the police > come take my functioning computers way that nothing can be recovered > that I explicitly deleted. The police just take disk images. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
