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From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
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Subject: Re: secure erasure of files?
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> IMHO overwriting with /dev/zero or /dev/random is sufficient.
> Recovering data after that falls into urban legend category :-)

I know of personal experience that the company ibas (http://www.ibas.com)
have, in lab, recovered data overwritten >30 times. To recover data
overwritten from /dev/zero is done in minutes.

roy

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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.


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