Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage
Trei, Peter
ptrei at rsasecurity.com
Tue Feb 4 09:44:46 PST 2003
> Sunder[SMTP:sunder at sunder.net] writes
[..]
> Yeah, yeah, yeah, lots of hype about storing terabytes and so on, not
> worried about that at all. The real question now is this: how effective
> are these nickel whiskers are recovering erased data off existing
> platters, or more precisely how many times do we need to overwrite a disk
> now to wipe the data?
[...]
Each time a more sensitive detector is discoverd, it's used by
disk manufacturers to increase storage density. The tracks get finer,
the bits and the magnetic forces they generate smaller. I expect this at
least partially cancels out the advantage that a more sensitive detector
gives the spy.
Of course, some sensitive techniques (SQUIDs, etal) are not economic for
casual use.
Peter
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