Gail Shaw wrote:

> Show me where in your original message you said anything about having done a
> proper purge of the drive.

"Even if they've been erased, you can still get data off them."

Now, if I'd just done something like

   delete C:\*.*

then my boss would have a point. With the right tools, it wouldn't be 
too hard to get the files back.

What I actually did was

   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

[Note that that's "sda", not "sda1", meaning the partition table and MBR 
are gone too.]

Using random data would be slightly more secure, but we have already 
reached the point where drive disassembly [and extremely expensive 
specialist equipment] is required. Given the sensitivity of the data 
involved... further effort seems overkill.

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