Dale wrote: > Grant wrote: > >> >>Thanks Peter. That is quite contrary to what most of the other posts >>in this thread are saying. Those are all just rumors and myths? >> >>- Grant >> >> >> > > > I think we all know it can be done.
No, we don't. > Governments do it all the time. > Data recevery people do it too. Do they? Why don't they advertise this? > Years ago I worked at a computer place > and the hard drive crashed. The heads physically pulled up the magnetic > media in a couple places. They still got almost 80% of the data back. AGAIN: That's a died hard disk. That's *COMPLETELY* different matter. And if you read what he wrote, you'll find that he also said that recovering data from died hardware is possible. > I'm sure the NSA, CIA and a few others can get data back off just about > anything. It's just a matter of how much money you want to spend and > how much time you want to put into it. Interesting point, though - if your data is worth just a few thousand bucks, than it will most of the time not make sense to waste the money on it. Alexander Skwar -- I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list