At 04:56 PM 9/7/96 -0500, you wrote:

John F. Fricker wrote:

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This excerpt from a Wired article/interview http://www.hotwired.com/wired/3.10/departments/electrosphere/data.html

"No data is totally safe," says Sharp ...

That entire article struck me as a load of hogwash the first time I read it. This Sharp dude rehashed several old fairy tales about data recovery.

Actually Sharp appears only in that one quote. The article is poorly editted. The rest of the article quotes some other data recovery experts and "Sharp" is never mentioned again. It's fun to debunk journalists but it takes more than saying "it's bunk". --j