Re: "Hard drive destruction 'crucial'" (BBC)

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:51:14 +0200, Andri Möll said:

> Overwritten data can be recovered too.

Do you have an actual citation any newer than Peter Guttman's work
to back that assertion up?

Hint: If it were economically feasible to recover overwritten data,
the large data-recovery companies would offer that service.  Dropped in
a lake? Yeah, they'll recover it.  Burned in a fire? Run over by a truck?
Yeah, they can do it.  Drive hit with 'format c:'? Still doable (since that
doesn't actually overwrite data, just the metadata).

Data overwritten even once, much less a 3-pass DoD overwrite? Crickets chirping...

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