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Offline iago

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Re: Who has more porn!?
« Reply #30 on: September 07, 2005, 03:50:20 pm »
If you overwrite every byte on a harddrive once, you're good for 99.999% of the world.  Only the richest and most powerful organizations (US Government, and a few private data-recovery organizations) can recover it.  If you overwrite it 3 times, you're safe from probably everybody, except maybe the US Government.  If you overwrite it 7 times, you have absolutely nothing to worry about.

My drive scrubber says 7 times is government standard for secure data deletion.

Yeah, I believe that's the American number.  Here, it's 3 for low-risk data, and complete destruction for high-risk data. 

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Re: Who has more porn!?
« Reply #31 on: September 07, 2005, 05:44:09 pm »
Well, hard drives go for about a dollar per 2GB, depending on brand, etc. Is Canada so broke it can't afford to just disenegrate (sp) them all?
I'd personally do as Joe suggests

You might be right about that, Joe.


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Re: Who has more porn!?
« Reply #32 on: September 07, 2005, 05:53:57 pm »
No, we just aren't that wasteful.  Why would you care if somebody managed to recover a copy of your mom's cake recipe off your harddrive?

(That's the example they always use at work, cake recipe's, it usually gets a laugh out of the person they're talking to)