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Post #12 by ~Coxy
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateThu, 28 Jan 2010 - 05:05
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/pulled-from-the-scrap-heap-powerbook-3400c.19684/
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If you wipe a drive with one pass of zeroes then all the data is gone for good, whether you have a clean room and electron microscope or not.

Has anyone proven it though?
Well you can't prove a negative in general, but you can say things like "any residual tracesof previously overwritten data is immeasurable with current technology if it exists at all".

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