[ale] [OT] Mojave Experiment

[greg.freemyer at gmail.com (Greg Freemyer)]

2008/7/30 Forsaken <forsaken at targaryen.us>:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:19:04 -0400
> "Michael B. Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
>> Most people just do the reinstallation and think
>> that the data is gone... but it's not; usually it's only (poorly)
>> written over.
>
> Yeah, I used to have to DoD wipes at my former job. And for another
> employer, the solution to getting rid of hard drives that were no
> longer needed involved a drill press. Effective to prevent run of the
> mill data recovery, but still not impossible. It was fun though!
>
> The only real way to ensure data is gone off a drive is to drop it into
> a crucible and turn it into molten slag.
>

NIST officially says that a single pass wipe does the job on a 20GB or
larger drive.

Only trouble is they have not shared the testing to backup their
statement.  I think the NSA did the tests.

Greg
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