On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:37:04 EST, der Mouse said: > I'm talking thermite.) The only real market I can see is to recover > accidentally overwritten data, and that requires that somehow a drive > had the only copy (unlikely) _and_ got so carelessly treated as to get > overwritten (also unlikely).
You've never worked in a university, have you? :) We have at least one department a year asking for recommendations for a recovery service because the only recent copy of some grad student's thesis or professor's research data just went south. Remember - the delete command will put all those blocks on the free list - the *only* thing needed to accidentally overwrite them at that point is to allocate new files... (And yes, we have a backup service. And yes, *most* of the people who get bit like this end up as subscribers... But when you got 30K students and a commensurate number of professors, it takes a *long* time because they seem unwilling to learn from the mistakes of others.)
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