[107184] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bernie Baby
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Jan 5 05:05:27 1999
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 00:51:07 -0800
To: wrath@eudoramail.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901050716.IAA05594@replay.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 08:16 AM 1/5/99 +0100, Anonymous wrote:
>>>>>> Bloody Gorefest <wrath@eudoramail.com> writes:
> > We are here to discuss crypto and security related stuff, if you
> > don't know that yet. Here, we aren't even REMOTELY related to SCSI
> > disk failures and hardware problems.
>ROTFL!
The question of "How much data can be retrieved from a disk drive"
comes up fairly often, because cypherpunks worry about the NSA/KGB/LCN
trying to recover data from a confiscated/stolen disk drive,
and what you need to do to prevent it.
Unfortunately, of course, there's a wide gap between what the
NSA can read if they want to spend lots of money and will be happy to
get _anything_ incriminating off your disk drive, versus
how successful you can be if you really want 99+% of the data
and don't have a large budget :-)
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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