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Hi,

Late response, but I've been lazy lately....

<snip>
> Even over-writing data does not prevent well-equipped and
> capable people from recovering some or all of it.
>
> Destruction of the media is the only guaranteed method.  Some
> tools render data inaccessible to all but the best-funded and
> skilled people and that may be enough.  It all depends on just
> how important it is for you that data be unrecoverable -- and on
> how interested another party might be in it.

Now you're just paranoid.  :-)  The last time I heard, it was only
possible to use electron microscopes to read back magnetic domains from a
platter when they had been modified 11 times or fewer.  Maybe they've
bumped it up a little lately, but it can't have been by THAT much.  :-)
The other thing is that the only people with funding for this are
typically major governments.  As you alluded to, you only need implement
security according to your level of risk.  I really don't want to know
what you've been up to if you consider this level of security an absolute
requirement.  ;-)
Regards,
Paul

Paul Gearon



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