Yeah, but these days, I'd go with the largest flash drive I could afford. USB2 or otherwise. I don't believe you can recover data from these once you actually overwrite the bits (anyone out there know any different?). They're either 1 or 0, there's no extra ferrite molecules to the left or the right of the track to pick up a signal from ;-) As always encrypt the data you write to the device. I wouldn't overwrite flash repeatedly (i.e. the Guttman method of 35 writes) though, there's a limit on the number of writes, after which it goes bad. I'd overwrite it once with random data. Eugen Leitl wrote:
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From: Richard Glaser <richard@SCL.UTAH.EDU> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 12:17:43 -0600 To: MACENTERPRISE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU Subject: Secure erasing Info Reply-To: Mac OS X enterprise deployment project <MACENTERPRISE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
FYI:
Rendering Drives Completely Unreadable Can be Difficult -------------------------------------------------------