Overwriting Hard Drive Data

[snowdrift]

I found this recent article very good. It is on the money IMO.

http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2...rd-drive-data/

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The purpose of this paper was a categorical settlement to the controversy surrounding the misconceptions involving the belief that data can be recovered following a wipe procedure. This study has demonstrated that correctly wiped data cannot reasonably be retrieved even if it is of a small size or found only over small parts of the hard drive. Not even with the use of a MFM or other known methods. The belief that a tool can be developed to retrieve gigabytes or terabytes of information from a wiped drive is in error.

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[chronomatic]

Discussed here already.

[snowdrift]

Originally Posted by chronomatic

Discussed here already.

True. Different whitepaper, same conclusion.