this is way off OT but I'll reply anyway. :-) On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Eric Furman wrote:
You throw out this document like it proves anything. I was in the military. I was in Military Intelligence (yes, I know. Hold the jokes) I also had some experience with the degaussing and destruction of disks. This does not prove *anyone* not even a government can recover the data from a completely overwritten disk. Not everything the government or the military does is necessary. Sometimes precautions are taken well above what anyone might even imagine might be possible. Sorry if I sound in any way confrontational. I just would really like to know.
Eric if you were in MI (I really want to make a joke, but I won't) then you know that techniques related to data recovery from hard drives would be classified. The intelligence community is not prone to publicaly publish whitepapers on their operations. diana