On 2/1/06, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to > > the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. > > Yes, in theory that might be possible - but how comes, that not > even the data recovery companies advertise this? And also, do > you have solid facts about data being recovered that way? >
An excellent MIT study on hard disk data recovery: http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensics.pdf -Richard -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list