On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Dennis Lindahl wrote: SNIP > Like I said, once the information _has_ been overwritten, it cannot be > recovered in any lab. A fellow from IBAS said this during a seminar I > attended recently. He even said it was a fundamental principle for all > professional data recovery. If it had been possible to retrieve > overwritten data from harddisks, im pretty sure the technique would have > been used in some high profile criminal investigation. But it hasnt, > because it is a myth. > > And like you said, there are indeed issues to actually performing a > complete overwrite. > > / Dennis
Let me 'splain something to you in PLAIN English. The US Gov't is WILLING to RELEASE and NOT PROSECUTE spies if it appears that CLASSIFIED information COULD be compromised in a court trial, NOT will be compromised, just the CHANCE of it occurring. Therefore just because YOU haven't heard of a way to recover over written data doesn't mean it can't be done. FWIW I don't personally know of a way to recover over written media, what I can say is that media is physically destroyed at various facilities I've worked at. diana
