wiping partitions

Bill Campbell linux-sxs at celestial.com
Tue Nov 13 20:23:43 PST 2007


On Tue, Nov 13, 2007, 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?

That depends on who's trying.  NSA (No Such Agency) and similar
organizations can get things out you wouldn't believe (besides
smashing hard drives with a hammer is fun :-).

Bill
--
INTERNET:   bill at celestial.com  Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC
URL: http://www.celestial.com/  PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way
FAX:            (206) 232-9186  Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676

The most serious doubt that has been thrown on the authenticity of the
biblical miracles is the fact that most of the witnesses in regard to
them were fishermen.
		-- Arthur Binstead



More information about the Linux-users mailing list