Re: [Hampshire] Securely deleting files

On 08/03/07, Vic <lug@???> wrote:

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>
> To ensure that any sector that could
> hold/have held a file is erased, you'd need to fill all available space
> with your erase pattern - and even then, I very much doubt that that would
> erase any blocks that have been marked as "troublesome" whilst containing
> the data in question. It's not going to be a trivial matter to recover any
> such data, but it's certainly not rocket science...


Hmmmm..... obvious when you think about it, but this hadn't occurred to me
before.

Thanks for that.... clearly, I'm going to have to re-think my security
strategy!

CAS