R: PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 03/26/2018 04:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>>> 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