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The Great Zero Challenge Remains Unaccepted

Posted by timothy on from the no-fair-guessing-porn-names- dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not even data recovery companies will accept The Great Zero Challenge and only four months remain! We've all heard how easily data can be recovered from hard drives. We're told to make multiple overwrites with random data, to degauss drives and even physically destroy them just to be extra safe. Let's get the word out. The challenge is almost over! It's put up or shut up time. Can you recover the data?"

2 of 496 comments (clear)

  1. You are arguing against yourself. by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Because you are giving the very concept print space (and your own time) right here on slashdot! Who cares about the website? Others would be blogging about it all over the place.

  2. voting by cbr2702 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Coming back to slashdot after reading reddit for a while, it is a very weird feeling not to be able to vote on posts.

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