What the NSA is patenting
John F. Fricker
jfricker at vertexgroup.com
Sat Sep 7 20:17:44 PDT 1996
At 04:56 PM 9/7/96 -0500, you wrote:
>John F. Fricker wrote:
>>
>> 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
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