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Re: Need program pointers
> On Nov 28, 6:51pm, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
> > A simple easy-to-get file over-writer (around 5 times if I
> > remember correctly) for DOS is tbdel.com, part of the TBAV
> > (ThunderByte Anti Virus) SW package.
>
> What worries me about most of these PC "DoD" file erasers is that
> I am reliably informed that on at least one occasion, 11 generations
> of data have been recovered from a generic SCSI hard disk. It was
> a very unusual circumstance (suspicion of data leakage from a very
> high security site), but I find it difficult to take 5-pass programs
> very seriously.
The NSA has done the same thing with a tunneling electron microscope. That
was a published report, too...
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