[email protected] wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:51:14 +0200, Andri Möll said: > >> Overwritten data can be recovered too. > > Do you have an actual citation any newer than Peter Guttman's work > to back that assertion up?
None other than Gutmann's once plausible paper[1]. On the safe side, shredding multiple times seldom costs more. 1: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html > Hint: If it were economically feasible to recover overwritten data, > the large data-recovery companies would offer that service. I think what's possible and what's reasonable to offer for consumers is a different topic. We're likely to end up talking about governments and conspiracies. Andri _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
