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Re: Flash Memory Wiping


From: nolife () gmail com
Date: 19 Jan 2007 14:18:45 -0000

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/devicex ?

Just overwrite the data, in comparison to a hard disk a flash can not be opened by a normal professional.
The structures are so small that it would be very very hard to analyse the "old" contents.

For nuclear weapon control units the standard procedure is to "shredder" the chip into a set of pieces, i do not know 
of any successfull reconstruction  :-)



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