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From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2016 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Floppy recovery
> I've
heard that there are "standards" for a number of overwrites, and
> what patterns to use, . . .
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
The paper that got the most notice was from Peter
Gutmann from the early 90s.
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Thank you!
That answers most of our ignorant questions.
I wonder what the cost is to do those techniques.
Well, if you don't have access to thermite or even a large sledgehammer then this
recommendation of his might be a cost-effective solution:
http://www.diskstroyer.com/Home.html
Even if you do have that sledgehammer this might be useful as a preprocessing step before
final treatment with the aforementioned hammer.
I'm fortunate in already having some of the tools in this kit and some experience in
their use and I can highly recommend this technique, not only for data destruction but
also for relaxation and a source of various unique parts.
I wonder how many of those clocks made from HD platters contain sensitive information;
definitely something else to worry about...
;-)