On Monday 28 October 2002 23:06, Dave Adams wrote: > I had an interesting conversation today with someone from FAST > (Federation > Against Software Theft) They pretend not to be a snitch wing of the > BSA. Anyway, to get to the point, the guy that came to see me said > that their forensics guys could read data off a hard drive that had > been written over > up to thirty times. [...]
Really? Wow. Please email me about the tools they are using, but that's probably classified. > can anyone point me to a source of information where I can get the > facts on exactly how much data can be retrieved off a hard drive and > under what conditions etc etc. Peter Gutmann, Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory, http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html DoD 5220.22-M (NISPOM), chapter 8, "Clearing and Sanitization Matrix", http://www.dss.mil/isec/nispom.htm [ snip, 18 lines of legal disclaimer in emails are a waste of pixels] /Thomas -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.northernsecurity.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.se.linux.org
