Re: wiping CDROMS? (computer forensic question)

[David Honig]

At 02:42 PM 7/4/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Has anyone ever studied how hard it is to wipe a rewritable CD?
>
>1. Put the disk in a sandwich plastic bag and seal it.
>2. Put an empty glass into a microwave oven, and bagged CD on the top.

Everyone suggesting uwaving a CD is forgetting
1. patches of metal film are left which are not eroded
2. rewritable CDs don't have conductive layers to toast AFAIK

And the idea is to wipe OTP bits to guard against partially-used CD loss.