6 Mar
2021
6 Mar
'21
5:20 p.m.
On 3/5/21 6:41 AM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
After thinking about disk imaging tools like Greaseweasel,
I started thinking about tools that would grab and examine the unused
portions of disks.
The data forensics folks are at least 20 years ahead of you, John!
They're interested in *everything* on disk, active or not.
More than 30 years ago, I posted a utility for MSDOS floppies called
"SEEJUNK". It was very revealing what could be found on manufacturers'
disks. To be fair, I also wrote a companion utility to clean the stuff
out called PRUNE.
It wasn't long after that when vendors were made aware of the issue and
took action fast.
--Chuck