On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:51 PM, Cotty wrote: > I think the point about sticking nails through hard drive platters is > only realistic in terms of forensic recovery of criminal activity. For > recovery of only a small part of one hard drive, the time, effort and > expense is only really feasible by law enforcement in order to secure a > prosecution. That or if you know Steve Gates just sold a laptop on eBay > and you fancy your chances ;-)
I managed to track down the data recovery challenge, called the Great Zero Challenge, but it's been withdrawn. They couldn't convince anyone to take it. Here's a link I found via google which contains some more details. http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted But for the truly paranoid, maybe they just don't want you to know what they can really do with government-level resources. As far as I'm concerned, DBAN is easy enough if you know what you're doing and if you want more than that, physical destruction is the only alternative. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
