[plug] HDD Erasure

[Goldie, Kathryn (RTSBS)]

Hiya
 
I see quite a few people have given some helpful replies on this. It is
not hard to retrieve deleted data from hard drives, even if it has been
overwritten/erased/formatted etc. There are some freely downloadable
tools to do it.
 
One thing that I tested was using a steganography tool, and using it's
shred utility to shred the hidden file. I then used a retrieval tool and
was not able to retrieve the shredded file. Other shred utilities I
tried didn't shred as well as the steggie tool - I was still able to
retrieve them.
 
btw no doubt there are better retrieval tools than the freely
downloadable one I used :)
 
Cheers
 
Kathryn
 
 
 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Watt" <something.rotten at gmail.com>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:11 PM
Subject: [plug] HDD Erasure

Hi Guys,

Just curious if there is any way to seriously wipe a HDD beyond the
point of retreival by anyone?  As far as I'm aware it isn't possible
without the pysical destruction of the drive.  If someone knows of
something though?

~Chris
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