[118303] in Cypherpunks
Re: Steganos - Wiping Data
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Roach)
Fri Sep 24 21:10:02 1999
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 07:49:01 -0500
To: Jonathan Stafford <jestaff2@unity.ncsu.edu>
From: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
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At 08:13 PM 9/24/99 -0400, Jonathan Stafford wrote:
>Less effective than sandblasting, but couldn't you also try wiping
>the tracks bordering the incriminating track?
>
>
>Jonathan
I've often wondered about perhaps reformatting with a lower number of
tracks and maybe a higher number of tracks if the BIOS would let me.
This still wouldn't do everything, even if it worked.
Might be better to just do a free-space wipe when you first turn the
thing on before going to work, and then repeat the process before
going to bed. This still wouldn't get the fragments peeking from
previously, conventionally, overwritten data. At least not as far as
I can see.
Sean Roach
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