> > I'm surprised the government let them go. Everyone's very > touchy about > > data loss these days - where I work they take out the hard disk and > > have it destroyed before they let the box go. > > They all have spanking new XP installs, I think destroying > drives is a bit over the top, there are a lot of very > thorough data wiping applications available. I have a friend > in big bank IT who has witnessed forensic data gathering, > it's not like in the movies.
The Russian mafia has specially-trained dogs left over from the KGB days who can smell the traces of the 'erased' bit patterns going back over 50 years, then bark the binary to a team of data prep clerks punching furiously into computers developed from the debris of Gary Powers' U-2. You can never be too paranoid. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
