On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 12:50, Matthew Pittard wrote: > How could someone access the information if you just reformat the hard > drive? Especially if you reformat it to a different file system like > NTFS?
Formatting only changes certain sectors of the disk. A malicious person can still extract useful information from the parts of the disk that aren't touched. Be it social security numbers, embarrassing letters, proprietary source code, whatever. If you fear the NSA/CIA, even the solutions we suggest aren't enough. They can read latent magnetic information and reconstruct a history of the disk. Physical destruction is the only option then. By the way, someone's clock is off. Unless you really did send this in July. -- Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen> Interviewer: What do you think anything[sic] is still missing from the [Linux] kernel? Andrew Morton: Groupies!
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