Destroying files

[Fredrik Henbjork]

On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Erno Kuusela wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:38:09 -0400, Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > writing zeros over the data does not make it unrecoverable.
> > there are numerous companies that specialise in this kind
> > of recovery.
> 
> You should do it three times.

May I recommend reading this paper:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

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Fredrik Henbjork

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