Of course it wouldn't need to be done at all after the fact if a simple keyboard logger had already been placed on the monitored computer while its user or owner was away from the office....
on 10/30/02 8:42 AM, Tim Donahue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Yes, it can be done.. it would cost about 100k per drive and >> the ability to access an electron scanning microscope. At 30 >> times I highly doubt they could recover anything of any value >> anyway. Using most commercially available products like >> "Encase", you can recover files that have been deleted, but >> not overwritten. Once the data is overwritten you are getting >> into using tools which are not available to the general >> public as far as I am aware. >> >> Mike >> > > This is the reason that the standard destroying drives that contain > classified material is the physical destruction of the drive. I am not > talking hitting the controller board with a hammer even, the platters need > to be destroyed. From what I remember reading on this list, the prefered > methods are incineration, and / or a bucket of a strong acid. >
