27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
12:15 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/26/2005 at 11:49 AM Erik Klein wrote:
A sense of their own self-importance? No-one cares that much, except
ego-charged management types. Really.
After the disk has been overwritten *once*, the data can not be
recovered without extremely specialised tools. Write a suitably random
pattern over the whole disk a couple of times, and it is gone. Utterly
gone. No amount of prodding with electron microscopes will bring it back.
Gordon.
The question is: how do I clean the drives
completely without any real
chance of data being recovered? The only other option would be to leave
the drives behind so they can be crushed.
If there is/was sensitive data on the drives and I were in the management
decision-making position, there's no way I'd let those drives out of the
door intact, no matter what anyone told me about being able to erase them.
The logic is pretty obvious--what do I have to gain by letting the drives
out assuming they've been cleared and what do I stand to lose by letting
them go if they aren't?