On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 21:25:55 -0800, Oliver Lange muttered: > >It's still not deleted. If a sufficiently determinded party wants to > >recover your data, they can do it. > > Well i have read an article about a topic called 'restformatierung' > (German), > which means something like 'remaining formatting'. If you physically open a > harddisk and connect it to some special diagnostics equipment, it might be > possible to find out how the magnetic particles on the disk have been before > they were overwritten to the actual state, but this is not guarateed > to work for all and every bit, and it requires very special equipment, > and AFAIK, the harddisk itself is gone forever after doing that.
That's what shred is for. Shred will overwrite a file with random data a number of times (the default is 25) to thwart this sort of attack. -- Andrew Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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