RE: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing

["William Holmberg" <wholmberg () amdpi com>]

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Subject: Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing

On 2007-09-01 gjgowey () tmo blackberry net wrote:
> A since pass with all zero's really won't protect your data from being
> recovered by more advanced data recovery software let alone alone
> hardware.

I'd like to see a single case where someone was able to recover data
from an overwritten harddisk, even after a single pass with zeroes.

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Hi,
No doubt you are an intelligent and well educated person in these
fields, and probably have many areas of expertise more proficient than
mine. I do have to state however, and nearly any Infragard member can
tell you, the FBI uses tools that accomplish this on a regular basis. I
have no doubt other agencies do as well. We have had demonstrations of
it remotely in a class I help instruct, SAFE computing for Law
Enforcement and Non-Profits (SAFE is Security And Forensic Education) at
Metro State University of Minnesota, MCTC campus.

My .02...
-Bill