On Jan 28, 2009, at 1:38 PM, John Callahan wrote:
> > > On Jan 27, 2009, at 11:11 PM, Dan wrote: > >> >> At 9:53 PM -0600 1/27/2009, Kris Tilford wrote: >>> >>>> Isn't that "7 Passes", a DoD (Department of Defense-iveness) >>>> government hoopla/hangup/thingy? > >>> snip > > >> I guess that if some one wanted to archive something forever a hard >> drive would be the way to do it? I'm guessing that the above is John speaking, not Dan, but sort of, yes. Data is recoverable off of hard drives, forever is a long time though. I would not reccomend to sorts of data recovery we're talking about here as an archival medium. That said, if a hard drive contains research data it would cost a rival several million dollars to duplicate, spending a couple of grand on some disk forensics is cheap. The UA does it because we're obligated by state law to prevent personal or confidential data from being disseminated. We do a hell of a lot better than most folks, though: <http://www.simson.net/clips/academic/2003.IEEE.DiskDriveForensics.pdf> They found data off of reformatted drives they bought on the open market, using commonly accessible tools to do it. Simson Garfinkel quite literally wrote the book on Unix and internet security: <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003234/index.html> This has been the bible of unix security for over a decade now. That said, the Internet Archive uses hard drives and DLT tape <http://www.archive.org/about/about.php#storage > -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
