From: khijol!erc (Ed Carp [Sysadmin])
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 22:08:53 PST
To: ianf@sydney.sgi.com (Ian Farquhar)
Subject: Re: Need program pointers
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> On Nov 28,  6:51pm, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
> > A simple easy-to-get file over-writer (around 5 times if I
> > remember correctly) for DOS is tbdel.com, part of the TBAV
> > (ThunderByte Anti Virus) SW package.
> 
> What worries me about most of these PC "DoD" file erasers is that
> I am reliably informed that on at least one occasion, 11 generations
> of data have been recovered from a generic SCSI hard disk.  It was
> a very unusual circumstance (suspicion of data leakage from a very
> high security site), but I find it difficult to take 5-pass programs
> very seriously.

The NSA has done the same thing with a tunneling electron microscope.  That
was a published report, too...
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