Just a little point. Sometimes precautions are taken not so much for the sake of what can be done today but what someone might figure out how to do in the future. I am not an engineer, but the explanation that I have heard of how data is read from a wiped drive sounds plausable (if not possible) given that the equiptment is available. Who's to say that next week or next year someone won't come up with a way of reading data from a wiped drive by a method that we haven't even thought of? After all... man was never supposed to be able to:
-fly -break the sound barrier -understand women oh wait... that last one I really do believe is impossible. s
