On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:28:34PM -0500, David Zakar wrote: > Yes. There was a discussion on bugtraq (or focus-linux?) a while back, I > believe. Essentially, the best way to delete your data is to never store > it unencrypted, and make sure to use a good crypto algorithm. You could > always piece together a shattered hard drive and then read that, whereas > brute forcing the encrypted data is mathematically just not going to > happen. > > Of course, they could still conceivably read your RAM, so you'll need to > physically destroy/hide that, too. And your crypto key! Breaking into > your house and stealing that hidden USB key is a serious issue...
I've always taken it as a question of your faith in voodoo: Does the NSA have stronger voodoo in making lost bits coming back to life or by breaking strong encryption? Lots of smart people can talk, but no one really nows.. - Rob .
