RE: Consequences of not really understanding

Subject: RE: Consequences of not really understanding
From: "Tom Johnson" <johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:39:29 -0500

> >Here in the UK, the Navy have such faith in the technology for wiping
> >hard drives that on one job I did in the 80s they paid to have the
> >drives smashed with a large hammer when the job was done :-)
>
> Then what did they do to the content creators?
>
> With the right software and patience, data can be recovered, intact,
> after three overwrites. The more regular the overwrite pattern
> (10101010... as opposed to something more 'random' like 28472849...)
> the easier it is to filter out. Information is also easier to recover
> from fragmented drives than unfragmented ones ....

Was that the hammer fragmentation method? If so, that must be some trick.
<g>

Tom


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