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Is it overkill?
Why write over the file 7 (or 8) times? Isn't once enough?
Is it overkill?
No, more than once is not overkill. Super-duper computer forensics labs can "see through" single writes without too much problem. You've got to do it several times to really give these guys a real problem.
Is it overkill?
I once saw a post on Usenet claiming that all the data of the entire federal government is kept on a single 20 MB hard disk. They keep overwriting the data, but the FBI/CIA/NSA can read down through the "layers", so no problem... |
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