Seriously, at some level You can be practically certain that the data cannot be resurrected, NSA or not NSA.
If You melt the platters the data is gone. If You encrypt the data with an enough long key it cannot be decrypted in relevant time. If You pulverize the platters the data is gone. Of this I'm quite certain. The overwrite method (e g 12 times) is sufficient in most commercial cases. I think. Thomas _____________________________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist IT Utveckling Swedbank AB (Publ) > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] För Ed Gould > Skickat: den 6 februari 2008 06:53 > Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Ämne: Re: Data Erasure Products > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 6:12 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/04/2008 > > at 11:18 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> I am a little skeptical about this seeing as how the PC world > >> doesn't to be really interested in this issue. > > > > There are several major issues that the PC world doesn't seem to be > > interested in. A failure to appreciate security problems until the > > balloon > > goes up would be par for the course. > > > >> Personally if they really wanted it GONE they should send it in a > >> rocket to the sun and let it vaporized already erased data. > > > > There are less expensive ways to vaporise a drive. > > > > > > Shmuel: > > Of course there are. But as long as there is a person left on earth > there would be attempt(s) to devaporize (I know there is no such > word) but if Star Trek can materialize someone and dematerialize > someone there would be attempts to get the data back .. somehow. The > sun (or maybe better a blackhole) is practically the only way to put > a stop to that. I was really not serious when I said the sun > but just > as there are always been ladies of the evening there is some one > waiting to use them. There will always be some attempt to get back a > vaporized (anything) if its valuable enough was my point, > obviously I > did not make it well enough. > > Ed > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
