Just FYI about security of deleted data..
I purchase used computers for parts every so often. Many of them have
working hard drives in them.
For fun, I analyze the hard drive out and see what I can find.. just as
a little game of mine.
When I run my undelete/recovery tools on them I can see basically
everything the previous owner had on the drive.. including passwords.
Some of the stuff may be overwritten.. but not much. I don't look at the
stuff for malicious use, I just do it out of curiosity to study whether
or not formatted drives really are secure. And I can say for sure they
are not secure. I don't go in looking at each password I recovered or
anything either.. i basically just confirm for fun that I can recover
the disk.. it's a cheap thrill and only someone with no life would do
such a thing. me. Actually there was a goal in all this.. it was to find
the best undelete tool that worked generically in the most situations.
And yes I found a few for MS Winblows that worked very well, since most
computers I buy had ms windows on them.
One thing I found was that some undelete tools are not nearly as good as
others. I thought many of them used similar algorithms.. but some of
them really worked much better and completely differently
L505
