On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Ken Fuchs wrote: > I've heard that forensic data recovery can restore data as far as seven > rewrite generations. It is extremely expensive, but sometimes its worth > it. So, maybe 10 "random number" passes would be enough to completely > scramble the original data. Just to be safe, maybe 20 passes to stay > ahead of the forensic data recovery technology curve. :) at 20 passes on a 160GiB drive by the time it is done the forensic curve will have caught up and passed it by about 20 years. -- Munir Nassar RedConcepts.NET http://redconcepts.net/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list