Awesome post

Posted by Sir Four at 11:26am Apr 10 '13
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"despite all the hype around multiple-pass purging, you really only need to overwrite data once, which makes it completely impossible to recover via software, and even a laboratory-level attack is very unlikely to bear fruit."

But wait, if one overwrite does the job, why is it argued that dozens are needed?

Also, how about taking a strong magnet to the drive?


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