RE: Consequences of not really understanding

["Tom Johnson" <johnsont -at- starcutter -dot- com>]

> >Here in the UK, the Navy have such faith in the technology for wiping
> >hard drives that on one job I did in the 80s they paid to have the
> >drives smashed with a large hammer when the job was done :-)
> 
> Then what did they do to the content creators?
> 
> With the right software and patience, data can be recovered, intact, 
> after three overwrites. The more regular the overwrite pattern 
> (10101010... as opposed to something more 'random' like 28472849...) 
> the easier it is to filter out. Information is also easier to recover 
> from fragmented drives than unfragmented ones ....

Was that the hammer fragmentation method? If so, that must be some trick.
<g>

Tom


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