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color=#0000ff size=2>IF you are protecting yourself from the neighbor kids once
might be enough. To protect yourself from your own government and large
organizations, it must be re-written multiple times. or it can still be
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color=#0000ff size=2>To be certain, drill some holes in it.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Nathan
Stien<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:13 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Central
Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Cialug] Semi-OT: wiping a hard
drive once is enough?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Howdy Luggers,<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432">http://www.h-online.com/news/Secure-deletion-a-single-overwrite-will-do-it--/112432</A><BR><BR>In
the above link, the author says that multi-pass hard drive wiping programs are
silly, because overwriting data once with zeroes is enough to make it
unrecoverable to forensics experts. This is definitely counter to what I
have been taught, and I'm curious what y'all think about it. <BR><BR>-
Nathan<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>