hmm Kurup,
how did you catch him ;-)
ernesto.
Hari Kurup wrote:
Ok Kenneth, but what is with the exotic name - Jean-Francois Laforest?
Kurup
Jean-Francois Laforest wrote:
The final solution is to heat your hard drive. You will be 100 % certain about loss of your valuable data.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 05:47:18 -0800 (PST), Alex Mbaziira
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You dont know how easy u've made my assignment :-) This saves me alot of hussle freeware and trialwarer. Thanks!
--- Kiggundu Mukasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/6592 Bruce Schneier has linked to yet another study that shows that people don't securely delete data from drives before selling them. This group purchased 111 supposedly clean hard drives and recovered a lot of sensitive information including "national insurance numbers, evidence of a married womanÃÂÃÂÃ Âs affair and detailed biographical information about children." I think the major issue is that your common guy thinks that formatting the drive is the solution to erase data, and anything more sophisticated than that is too difficult or expensive. Here I'll show you how to easily shred a drive using free Open Source tools.
"The basic problem with a regular format of a hard drive, is that it generally doesn't actually go back and scramble all of the data...
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