On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:50:02 PST, nick hatch said: > I'm willing to say that nobody (spooks or otherwise) reads data off a HD > using AFM. It's just not the right tool. If you're worried about it: hit the > case with a hammer hard enough to bend/shatter the platter. A bent platter > would be a nightmare for ANY microscopy technique, even for a theoretical > custom spook machine.
Actually, you have that bass-ackwards. A bent platter is *more* likely to be recoverable than a single overwrite. Look at what these guys claim to have recovered from: http://www.drivesavers.com/company-info/museum-of-bizarre-disk-asters/ Some of those look like there's no way the platters *couldn't* be warped/bent. And still recoverable, but they won't touch single-overwrites.
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