On Wednesday 12 October 2005 12:21, Alexander Henry wrote: > On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:08:27 -0700, Technomage > > wrote: > > is it possible, given the current understanding of the laws of physics, > > to so > > erase a hard drive as to make it virtually impossible to recover ANY > > data of > > any usefulness whatsoever (up to and including either a major government > > or > > major multinational corporationthrowing huge sums of money at the > > problem in > > an attempt to recover)? > > I don't think anyone is going to take very serious measures against the > kind of stuff I've seen you do. hehehehe. well, it isn't for me, but if it were, well............ btw, I did try a variation on the badblocks command to see how well it would erase a drive. let it run all night. got back to it 15 minutes ago and figured out it had written over the same drive 200+ times overnight. now, I'd like to see someone at a physics lab recover the windows XP installation at had on that puppy! TMH --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss