Ross Mitchell wrote: > I hope this helps
Before those of you go into great hysterics. What Ross is talking about is theoretically possible, practically impossible. A harddisk that has been in use for a while has so many jumps about it is difficult to simply string a file together if it is simply deleted without any supporting trace if it is clear text jumping from sector to sector. If you use Open Office 6 whose files are gzipped then you would have a binary file that is not imediately readable. The possibility of retrieving something overwritten once or twice has been proven, it would take a fair amount of patience. Most companies that I would call paranoid only require a double erase of the harddisk. Tapes they require to be destroyed. Unless you are ASIO, dont worry about it much. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
