Re: undelete and purge programs

From: bd (bdonlan@bd-home-comp.no-ip.org)
Date: 03/03/03 

From: "bd" <bdonlan@bd-home-comp.no-ip.org>
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 18:47:15 -0500

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 22:59:37 +0000, Vlad Tsyrklevich wrote:

> [snip]
>
> Look at http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/, good tool, you need to overwrite
> information on your HDD so many times before it actually goes, 20-30
> usually will do it so that getting back data is a major pain, of course
> the only way to completely get rid of something is a sledgehammer ;-).

Actually, thermite is the preferred way :) 

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