> Certainly,
but it's fruitless to use logic in cases such as these.
> Chances are that someone once read the paper from the 1990s that
> said it
> was possible to recover overwritten data from a drive using, IIRC, an
> STM--at a rate of what was it? 1 kbit per hour?
On Mon, 26 Mar 2018, Ethan via cctalk wrote:
AFAIK there has been a bounty out to recover data
with a single wipe
that hasn't been collected. I thought it was all theory and never
done in practice?
NSA (No Such Agency) at Fort Meade, Maryland, does not discuss how
much success they have had with their extensive research into data
recovery.
NSA has been successful enough that the concept "DOD Wipe" as was found
in programs like Gformat from Ghost no longer exists.
bill