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

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents-montreal org>]

> > 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? :)

Either fifteen or sixteen years, depending on whether you count a
one-year leave of absence. :)

I actually was a bit too abbreviated.  I don't consider those
conditions unlikely per se; what I consider unlikely is that those
conditions will occur with data valuable enough to be worth the expense
of AFM-level palimpsest decoding at all.

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