confidential info on old harddrives.

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed May 26 23:06:44 1999

Max Eskin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 May 1999, Marvin wrote:
> >drive, and then hit the platters with a bulk eraser. I have heard that it
> >is possible to recover data from the HD even after doing a wipedisk by
> >removing the platters and then analyzing the platters (urban legend?)
>
> Certainly, it's possible to do anything. However, for a person to be sick
> enough to actually spend hours recovering personal data from a hard drive
> which is of no beneficial value to him is beyond my imagination.

Note that I didn't specify the type of data nor the application that someone
might spend the time to try and recover the data. I can see we need to work
on your imagination :).
Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 23:06:44 BST