On 03/26/2018 04:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: >>> Certainly, but it's fruitless to use logic in cases such as these. >>> Chances are that someone once read the paper from the 1990s that >>> said it >>> was possible to recover overwritten data from a drive using, IIRC, an >>> STM--at a rate of what was it? 1 kbit per hour? > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Ethan via cctalk wrote: >> AFAIK there has been a bounty out to recover data with a single wipe >> that hasn't been collected. I thought it was all theory and never >> done in practice? > > NSA (No Such Agency) at Fort Meade, Maryland, does not discuss how > much success they have had with their extensive research into data > recovery. >
NSA has been successful enough that the concept "DOD Wipe" as was found in programs like Gformat from Ghost no longer exists. bill
