Re: Macintosh / PC hard drive security

From: Johan De Meersman (johan@ops.skynet.be)
Date: 02/03/03

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    From: Johan De Meersman <johan@ops.skynet.be>
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    Anthony, Shayla wrote:

    >Also, what would be a secure way to delete data from a hard drive of a MAC that has *sensitive* information on it such as medical and patient information.
    >
    Depending on how paranoid you are, physically melting the disks is the
    only certain option - specialized labs can recover data that's been
    overwritten 30 times and more.

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