On Sat, 15 Dec 2012 02:40:06 -0800, Ron Hawkins wrote:
>Radoslaw,
> ...
>I think there are two things that have changed from 15 years ago. As you
>reference, one is that secure erasure became vogue due to the urban myth
>that the contents of a disk drive could be completely reconstructed by
>reading the bits on a track that were randomly laid down outside the mode
>write path of a head. ...
>
I didn't see the citation (from R.S.?). My favorite is:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it-739699.html
(I don't know the credentials of that author. Caveat lector.)
Why 35, not 34 or 36 or ...? Colonic extraction?
-- gil
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