On Nov 28, 6:51pm, Mats Bergstrom wrote:
A simple easy-to-get file over-writer (around 5 times if I remember correctly) for DOS is tbdel.com, part of the TBAV (ThunderByte Anti Virus) SW package.
What worries me about most of these PC "DoD" file erasers is that I am reliably informed that on at least one occasion, 11 generations of data have been recovered from a generic SCSI hard disk. It was a very unusual circumstance (suspicion of data leakage from a very high security site), but I find it difficult to take 5-pass programs very seriously.
The NSA has done the same thing with a tunneling electron microscope. That was a published report, too... -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi ** PGP encrypted email preferred! ** "What's the use of distant travel if only to discover - you're homeless in your heart." --Basia, "Yearning"