[clug] Secure Erase of disks/drives

[Tomasz Ciolek]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:18:03PM +1000, Alex Satrapa wrote:
> On 08/05/2007, at 13:49 , Tomasz Ciolek wrote:
> 
> >I mean in the WHOLE disk is juzt zeros, what difference does it  
> >make as
> >to ist previous contents?
> 
> In a sensitive environment, you might have secrets stored on the disk  
> which people would be prepared to spend $10k to discover through  
> special microscopy techniques.

Actually microscopy techniquesr cost more than 10K per disk to try. I am
reliably informed the cost is on the order of 100K to 1M... and takes MONTHS of
work...

Tomasz

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