In <[email protected]>, on 12/15/2012
at 12:27 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> said:
>A *LONG* time ago I was told by an IBM friend that the CIA (NSA?)
>was able to retrieve data (in readable format) from a 3330 after
>quite a few writes.
Is it still feasible with today's technology and how much would it
cost for today's disks?
>This was during the time (shortly there after) of the email debacle
> from the WH.
The investigators didn't use fancy techniques to read residual
magnetization; they just restored from the backups. It seems that
those traitors[1][2] in the WH didn't understand the concept of
backups.
[1] Illegally selling weapons to Iran gave them aid and comfort; by
their own admission they are enemies of the United States.
[2] I'm much less concerned about the embezzlement than about the
treason.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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