If some one has enough resources and motivation, they can recover your 'wiped' magnetic media.

An acquaintance of mine who (probably) works for a Large Intelligence Agency in Virginia said that they never bother trying to 'erase beyond the ability of anyone to recover' their obsolete/failed hard drives. When a hard drive is slated for decommisioning, it goes into an electro-furnace and gets toasty at 3000F for an hour or so. The resultant liquid metal is cast into five pound ingots and put into the basment storage vault. A few years ago, they ran out of space in the vault and, after a *lot* of research and high level discussion, they decided that anything more that ten years old could be removed from dead storage and sold on the open market as 'scrap metal, mixed alloy'. Even then, they restricted the amount sold to any one dealer to 50 pounds.

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I Go Back to Sleep, Now.

OGB

In reply to Re: Secure delete ie shred a file by Old_Gray_Bear
in thread Secure delete ie shred a file by fluffyvoidwarrior

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