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| From: | Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | ||
| Date: | Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:15:49 | ||
| Message-Id: | 200912171013.56392.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale by Robert Bridge |
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| 1 | On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote: |
| 2 | > dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the |
| 3 | > disk. |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | |
| 6 | And the resulting effect from doing that once is: |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Trivially easy to recover the data that was there just before you did the dd |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Why? Data on-disk is not a binary cell like ram. It is a magnetic pattern and |
| 11 | the pattern from the previous write is still there IIF you know how to find it |
| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | Adam <adam@××××××××××.au> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale | Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com> |