Hi Ron.
>> If you are planning on selling them or giving them away, then a 1 pass
>> wipe isn't really protecting your data from anything...you're gonna
>> need to spend waay more than 3 hours to do a "secure" wipe ;)
>
> And that's a myth.
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue
>
> Read the further epilogue: '"A good scrubbing with random data will do
> as well as can be expected". This was true in 1996, and is still true
now.'
>
> So, a single pass writing random data is all that's necessary.
The NSA would like you to believe that. :)
I've played with magnetic recording a bit in the past, mainly with mag tape.
I could see the effects of a previous image on the current image. I don't
understand why this wouldn't be true for disk, also.
Regards,
John
John Souvestre - New Orleans LA - (504) 454-0899
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