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Single Drive Wipe Protects Data
ALF-nl writes "A forensics expert claims that wiping your hard drives with just one pass already makes it next to impossible to recover the data with an electron microscope." But that's not accounting for the super secret machines that the government has, man.
mods, please use funny for these posts so my (-5 funny) filter will work. we don't need to waste karma on these kinds of posts.
-- I was raised on the command line, bitch
It was funnier 45 minutes ago...
You are all a bunch of idots.
Impossible is a word not used much in IT. I work for IT firm that specializes in forensics investigation. I personally have extracted data from 3 pass wiped drives using open source software. Now, granted the possibility of you getting whole files gets tougher with each run, but I have done. Some of the software no available on the market can do wonderous things with trashed drives, simply put, if you have enough money and time no data is safe unless you put in in the volcano like the post above.