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Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:48:42 +0200
On 2007-09-11 William Holmberg wrote:
On Tuesday, September 04, 2007 1:03 PM Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:On 2007-09-01 gjgowey () tmo blackberry net wrote:A since pass with all zero's really won't protect your data from being recovered by more advanced data recovery software let alone alone hardware.I'd like to see a single case where someone was able to recover data from an overwritten harddisk, even after a single pass with zeroes.No doubt you are an intelligent and well educated person in these fields, and probably have many areas of expertise more proficient than mine. I do have to state however, and nearly any Infragard member can tell you, the FBI uses tools that accomplish this on a regular basis. I have no doubt other agencies do as well. We have had demonstrations of it remotely in a class I help instruct, SAFE computing for Law Enforcement and Non-Profits (SAFE is Security And Forensic Education) at Metro State University of Minnesota, MCTC campus.
Demonstrations of recovering data from fully overwritten media, without opening the case? Sorry, but I seriously doubt that. Feel free to prove me wrong, but without evidence I find that really hard to believe. Keep in mind we're not talking about wiping single files, but overwriting the entire media. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
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- RE: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing Craig Wright (Sep 11)
- RE: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing Murda Mcloud (Sep 11)
- RE: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing William Holmberg (Sep 11)
- Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Sep 12)
- Re: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing gjgowey (Sep 12)
- RE: Advice regarding servers and Wiping Drives after testing Craig Wright (Sep 12)
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