Re: Interesting One

[Reece Arnott <reece.arnott () dropmemail com>]

This could possibly be done using a technique called Magnetic force
microscopy.

http://www.cypherus.com/resources/docs/shred.htm
describes this technique and also how to really erase data (which basically
means just overwriting a large number of times :-)



At 22:06 28/10/2002 -0000, you wrote:
> Greetings Folks,
>
> I had an interesting conversation today with someone from FAST
> (Federation
> Against Software Theft) They pretend not to be a snitch wing of the BSA.
> Anyway, to get to the point, the guy that came to see me said that their
> forensics guys could read data off a hard drive that had been written
> over
> up to thirty times. I find this very hard to believe and told him I
> thought
> he was mistaken but the guy was adamant that it could be done. My
> question
> is, does anyone have any views on this, or, can anyone point me to a
> source
> of information where I can get the facts on exactly how much data can be
> retrieved off a hard drive and under what conditions etc etc.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Adams

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