On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:00:19PM -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > I hate to tell you this, but the F.B.I. Computer Forensics Laboratory has > successfully recovered data from a drive, where the platters were shot > multiple > times with a shotgun. > > The only sure way to make sure no one can recover your data is to put it into > a > blast furnace (this would be hot enough to melt the whole thing into a puddle, > and would cause substantial mixing between the ferro-magnetic alloy and the > titanium internal structure.
Have they ever tried a disk that's had the coating polished off with a wire-wheel chucked into a portable drill? Dust is usually fairly random. Or how about supposedly happened to the Purple cipher machine just before Pearl was hit: hammered to bits, dissolved in acid, poured in the flower beds. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he means the exact opposite.
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