Re: Preventing Message Recovery

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Re: Preventing Message Recovery
\ The Real Bev (19 Apr 2007)
. \ David E. Ross (20 Apr 2007)
. \ Paul B. Gallagher (22 Apr 2007)

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Subject:	Re: Preventing Message Recovery
Group:	Mozilla-general
From:	Paul B. Gallagher
Date:	22 Apr 2007

The Real Bev wrote:
> (Moved from m.s.thunderbird in accordance with Appropriate Standards of
> Behavior)
>
> Ron Hunter wrote:
>
>> E C H (He of too much code) wrote:
>>
>>> Ron Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>>> Brian Heinrich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2007-04-17 03:44 (-0600 UTC), squaredancer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> <snip />
>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>>> Another way is to write 10101010 followed by 01010101, then 11111111
>>>> and finally 00000000. Repeat 128 times. That satisfies the US
>>>> Government. It is somewhat time-consuming on HD, but it will
>>>> guarantee no recovery is possible with current technology. Doing
>>>> this requires low-level HD access.
>
>
> Didn't Norton (wipedisk or something like that?) do something like that
> Way Back When?

Still does, still called "wipedisk." You can choose parameters as
described in David E. Ross's post in this thread. Wipe can be applied to
files, folders, or drives -- though I can't vouch for what happens if
you try to wipe the system disk containing the program... ;-)

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