How much wiping do you do? :)

[cybereagle at gmail.com (Matt Hillman)]

Nice idea tim, but the problem is you'd need some pretty specialist
equipment to have any chance of seeing things past 1 wipe. I mean, the drive
sends you a 0 its a 0 unless you can get down with your bas science self and
find out what the drive doesnt even know.

Maybe this is a thing to get bret and ovie in on...


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Tim Krabec <tkrabec at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's do a test, and end speculation.  Let's get a few "junk" drives, have
> a few people wipe them, using some paranoid/non paranoid techniques,
>
> then send the drives to some one else who will put on a few specific files,
> a few word & excel docs, photos, a fake quickbooks files, some OS files,
> what ever, wipe the drives using a series of techniques 1 with the single
> pass, one with a multi over write, etc
>
> then send the drive to people like me, or other volunteers who will then
> try to recover the data, I'd recommend using different software.  Then we'll
> post the results.
>
> Something just does not feel right about a single over write.
>
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