Securely delete files...

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Chris Walters wrote:

> I hate to tell you this, but the F.B.I. Computer Forensics Laboratory 
> has successfully recovered data from a drive, where the platters were 
> shot multiple times with a shotgun.
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that wouldn't surprise me, but is there a reference for it?

i would think the hard part would be finding all (enough?) of the pieces. 
was the platter actually shot? or just the case?


> The only sure way to make sure no one can recover your data is to put it 
> into a blast furnace (this would be hot enough to melt the whole thing 
> into a puddle, and would cause substantial mixing between the 
> ferro-magnetic alloy and the titanium internal structure.
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even then, some smart-ass will eventually come along and demonstrate how 
data can be recovered, even from the lump of metal ;)


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