wiping partitions

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007 08:58:24 pm Bob Hemus wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:21 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>
> O.K. fellas, I thought that if you reformatted it a couple of different
> times and different OSes there wouldn't be enough 0's & 1's left to
> "figger out".  Not true?
> Bob
>

We will never know for sure, as those that have the money and time to recover 
erased data aren't talking. :')

It used to be, that I could take "old hardware" home as I saw fit. I used to 
take harddrives home by the dozens until it was decided that no amount of 
erasing was secure enough to protect company data. We now routinely destroy 
old hardware. Harddrives, floppies, usb dongles, cd's and dvd's are shredded 
or otherwise rendered physically useless. We've spent a small fortune on 
hotglue guns and sticks so we can seal up usb ports, floppy doors, cdrom 
doors and every imagineable media port. Paranoid? Maybe... be we loose no 
data.

Paranoid? There's more and more anecdotal evidence that just about anything is 
possible in regards to data recovery. Granted, if you're not on the "radar" 
of any government agency, you have little to fear. But if you want to be sure 
that what you've worked hard and long for is totally protected... you destroy 
the hard drive... and be very happy about it.


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>From the Desk of: Jerome D. McBride