R: PATA hard disks, anyone?
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Mon Mar 26 15:08:37 CDT 2018
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_papers/gutmann/index.html
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
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