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Old 03-05-2008, 10:20 PM
Rick Merrill
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Default Re: How many overwrites for secure erase?

Mark F wrote:
> Re: "How many overwrites for secure erase?"
>
> I didn't see any mention of the fact that for most disks there
> isn't a way to erase revectored (i.e., replaced) blocks.


Good insight! All the more reason to never have unencrypted material of
any size on disk or in memory (suppose a virtual memory block was
revectored).

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