R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Fred Cisin]

>> 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.

It is hard to make the data unrecoverable.
It is easy to make the recovery cost exceed the value of the data.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com