On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:51:49 +0000 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
I still wonder that anyone believes such extreme measures are necessary! Criminals are not, in the main, super intelligent computer gurus.
Simply using one of the overwriting utilities is going to prevent anyone except the CIA from reading your disks and it'll cost the CIA way more than the money in your bank accounts to do it (even if they can).
It makes me feel better and safer.
In my professional life I have come across examples of disks supposedly "securely" erased. They weren't.
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