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Old 02-29-2008, 01:19 PM
bealoid
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Default Re: How many overwrites for secure erase?

"Sebastian G." <seppi@seppig.de> wrote in
news:62q4cpF2486s5U1@mid.dfncis.de:

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> This is nothing special though, even Peter Gutmann mentions much more
> potent ways like magnetic force scanning tunneling microscopy.


and even gutmann says that no longer works and that 3 random overwrites is
about as good as you can do.

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