26 Mar
2018
26 Mar
'18
8:08 p.m.
On 03/26/2018 12:26 PM, ethan at 757.org 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?
Here's the Gutmann paper that many people cite:
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_p…
This may be applicable to early hard drives, but probably not practical
with later hard drives. However, like a bad penny, the legend has
persisted and IT management has, ever since, been irrationally paranoid.
--Chuck