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[nycphp-talk] OT: Permanently delete files

csnyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Thu May 12 11:51:14 EDT 2005


On 5/12/05, Rolan Yang <rolan at omnistep.com> wrote:
> How permanent? Some places can physically recover data off a hard drive
> even after it has been formatted several times.

As long at we're OT, I noticed the other day that Apple's drive
formatter offers the option of overwriting each block of an erased
volume 35 times.

As in, I really really really (x35!) want that data gone.



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