Re: Interesting One

[Candice Ward <mcward () nc rr com>]

Of course it wouldn't need to be done at all after the fact if a simple
keyboard logger had already been placed on the monitored computer while its
user or owner was away from the office....



on 10/30/02 8:42 AM, Tim Donahue at TDonahue () haynesconstruction com wrote:

> > Yes, it can be done.. it would cost about 100k per drive and
> > the ability to access an electron scanning microscope. At 30
> > times I highly doubt they could recover anything of any value
> > anyway. Using most commercially available products like
> > "Encase", you can recover files that have been deleted, but
> > not overwritten. Once the data is overwritten you are getting
> > into using tools which are not available to the general
> > public as far as I am aware.
> >
> > Mike
>
> This is the reason that the standard destroying drives that contain
> classified material is the physical destruction of the drive.  I am not
> talking hitting the controller board with a hammer even, the platters need
> to be destroyed.  From what I remember reading on this list, the prefered
> methods are incineration, and / or a bucket of a strong acid.