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/

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