26 May
1999
26 May
'99
12:16 p.m.
Allison J Parent wrote:
<I'm sure that lawyers are the worst because they know that if you did
<anything with the information or even made it public knowledge that you ha
<the information they would successfully sue you for everything you own.
It's a foolish practice. Running Norton's diskwipe is a good thing but at
least delete and better yet do a format.
Both deleting and formatting are generally pretty trivial to recover from on
a PC. Another technique I have used when I didn't have immediate access to a
wiping program (and *think* it is okay although not as good as doing a
wipedisk) is to overwrite the offending file with another larger one, i.e.
"copy [bigfile.ext] [offending file.ext]" and of course, then deleting the
file. If it were *really sensitive* data, then I would disassemble the
drive, and then hit the platters with a bulk eraser. I have heard that it
is possible to recover data from the HD even after doing a wipedisk by
removing the platters and then analyzing the platters (urban legend?)