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Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage


From: "Doug Moen" <doug.moen () bluecoat com>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:10:40 -0400

From: "Rick Wash" <rwash () citi umich edu>
This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is
easy to delete large amounts of data quickly.   Imagine you hear the feds
knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light
(aka your data) fly out into the room.   Your data is gone, permanently.
If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete
everything
-- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations.   Show me another
method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
that quickly.

A ramdisk.

Doug Moen.


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