On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 10:26, Craig Pratt wrote: > On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 13:23 US/Pacific, Ron DuFresne wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David Hayes wrote: > > > >> Our old standby, "dd", is perfectly acceptable for making an image of > >> a hard drive to be used in court. It's even the #1 choice of the FBI, > >> and accepted by U.S. federal courts. From the trial court order on > >> admission of evidence in the case of Zacarias Moussaoui (the accused > >> 20th hijacker of 9/11): > >> > > > > Interesting, I would have thought that the original was required for > > the > > courts, and that forensics was conducted on the copy. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ron DuFresne > > I believe there are ways to recover data at the physical/magnetic level > - magnetic remnants of previously-deleted data, for instance - which > would require access to the original platters. I read an article about > this somewhere - would have to be SciAm or /.
Peter Gutmann has written a nice paper on data recovery of this very nature, it can be found at: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html -- Ldreamer _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
