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Old July 10th, 2008
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Originally Posted by Orange County Ca View Post
I'm still skeptical. Ursula are you saying that if I store a document with only the letter "a" in it and write over it with random letters other than "a" thousands of time that someone somewhere can tell me what that original letter was?

And that given time and money that person can pull out enough information to determine a file was porn and specifically child porn?

Sorry, don't buy it. Governments with billions of dollars to spend will recycle hard drives after overwriting. With that kind of money incineration would be the avenue of choice.

Please give us a reference to your information.

PS: Most of the returning people I see here are either asking how to get rid of it or telling people how to get rid of it.
I suggest you buy it d00d....

read through this thread and you will notice is used the metaphor of cross talk on a vinyl record....

and I also stated that our (US) military planes have algorithms for both deletion and physical destruction of drives...

finally...Guttman recently admitted that his algorithm for data overwritting is not totally fool proof...

as Urs has stated, the only secure way to delete the data is to physically destroy the HDD...and I do mean destroy...completely...tiny, tiny, little pieces....
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