"Gail Shaw" <initialsurname@sentech sa dot com> wrote:

> Um, actually...
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,108831-page,1/article.html
> http://www.guard-privacy-and-online-security.com/how-clean-off-the-hard-driv
> e.html
>
> Your boss is right. It may not be as easy as 'undelete' but the data's there
> and it doesn't take a microscope to find it, and it could be worth a lot of
> money.


This has always bothered me.  Something does not hang right.

Could one just copy a couple of version of a linux distro (0.6 to 4 GB) on top
of it?  Would THAT be enough to completely obfuscate what was originally on the
disk?   If not, then why hasn't anyone yet made a commercial use of the ability
of HDD's to remember everything that has ever been on them?

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