I'd always heard the US Federal spec for declassifying a drive required it
be destroyed?
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Gregory Hicks wrote:
> If I remember correctly, the magic number of over-writes is 6. Less
> than this many overwrites leaves the data subject to recovery.
>
> I haven't done it (I don't have the equipment), but the US Federal spec
> for declassifying a drive requires you to do this number of random
> writes before you can say that the drive is 'declassified'... Of
> course, if you are truly trying to declassify a drive, the best way is
> with a 16# sledge...
>
> Regards,
> Gregory Hicks
>
> > From: dreamwvr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:55:50 -0600
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > not sure if one can recover data that has been low level scrubbed too
> > many times but.. i did read a article while on business on the East
> > Coast and then a lay over in Toronto where a Toronto co has invented a
> > process to recover low level formatted data from disk. The process was
> > using the remanent magnetic signatures.. thing is if he encrypted and
> > scrubed that way i am not sure this would work.. of flooded the disk
> > with all nulls and then encrypted and then attempted magneto read..
> > then scrubed and continued.. then randomized writes then scrubbed with
> > nulls and so on and so on .. but 'seriously' doubt that process the
> > person you are talking about did. if so not sure that this would help..
> > but it might. it was in the Toronto main newspapers computer section
> > in the last few months.. sorry but seem to not remember anymore
> > specific days when in a specific city on the road. oh well seems the
> > memory here has cleared itself as well. so if you uncover a means to
> > remember data in the braincells that you only thought you forgot ..
> > please let me know;-))
> >
> > Regards,
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