Show me another
method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner
that quickly.
RAM?
I haven't priced gigabit hardware recently, but I imagine it's similar or more expensive to maintain a gigabit fiber long enough to hold 6.5 GB of data as it is to create a 6.5 GB ramdisk.
The use here (if you must find one) is in hiding data where others don't expect it.
-Eric Stevens mightye at mightye dot org
Rick Wash wrote:
On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:03:20PM -0700, Nicholas Weaver wrote:
So who cares? Why juggle when shelves hold so much more?
Just because you and I don't have a use for this doesn't make it useless.
This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is easy to delete large amounts of data quickly. Imagine you hear the feds knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light (aka your data) fly out into the room. Your data is gone, permanently. If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete everything -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations. Show me another method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner that quickly. Hard drives need to be overwritten many times, but even then they can still likely be recovered with enough money put toward it.
Rick
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