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

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:37:04 EST, der Mouse said:

> I'm talking thermite.)  The only real market I can see is to recover
> accidentally overwritten data, and that requires that somehow a drive
> had the only copy (unlikely) _and_ got so carelessly treated as to get
> overwritten (also unlikely).

You've never worked in a university, have you? :)

We have at least one department a year asking for recommendations for a
recovery service because the only recent copy of some grad student's thesis or
professor's research data just went south.  Remember - the delete command will
put all those blocks on the free list - the *only* thing needed to accidentally
overwrite them at that point is to allocate new files...

(And yes, we have a backup service.  And yes, *most* of the people who get
bit like this end up as subscribers...  But when you got 30K students and
a commensurate number of professors, it takes a *long* time because they
seem unwilling to learn from the mistakes of others.)

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