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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> They both rely on the fact that you can read what _was_ once written to |
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> the hard drive by examining the spaces. So that's one method. |
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Yes, in theory that might be possible - but how comes, that not |
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even the data recovery companies advertise this? And also, do |
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you have solid facts about data being recovered that way? |
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> The other method of recovering data is just to cat /dev/hda, but that |
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> relies on the hd not being "wiped" (overwritten with 0's and 1's many |
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> times in a semi-random fashion!). |
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Or even just once with 0. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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I hate you Kenny. |
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