On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 14:59 +0000, David Greaves wrote: > Err, that would be the point... > > And given that your plot would even work, how many spods on eBay have access > to > a magnetic force microscope? > > Obviously the word spods includes BBC reporters (note, not "journalist") > incapable of entering > "wiped disc recovery scanning electron paper" > into Google and getting as the second hit: > http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/ > > Which makes a mockery of the whole thing (as do any number of other references > that are not obtained from companies making a living from BS).
Then there is the paper (read the epilogue especially) which debunks this above linked article by the Author (Peter Gutmann) on who's out-of-date material they based it!! It was published in 1996 and the epilogue was written this year as a strong rebuttal to the sansforensics article. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html Well worth a read and very insightful... -- Phil Lewis > For the lazy: > The forensic recovery of data using electron microscopy is infeasible. > David - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
