shredding files on a flash drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 02:16:13PM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> I think Simson's point was that Guttmann was incorrect in his claims
> that data on overwritten drives could be recovered and should be
> overwritten many times to become 'secured'.  The know one sure way to
> secure a drive, and that it is smash it with a sledgehammer and throw
> it in the fire.  But, apparently just dd'ing with zeros *once* is
> sufficient...

Well dd'ing with zeros makes it hard to recover (I have read claims that
given enough time with electron microscopes and such you might still be
able to recover data).

So Guttmann's claims were overly paranoid and not very well founded
then?

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