shredding files on a flash drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:54:53PM -0800, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:
> That claim is apparently false, by numerous rebuttals to the Guttmann
> paper.  I will assume that the rebuttals are correct until someone can
> prove that.  Btw, I also have a question for you :-)
> 
> Q: You open a hard disk drive case enclosure, remove the actuator and
> screws for the platters, and place two platters on your desk.  The
> data was intact and not overwritten when you pulled them from the
> caseing.  Can you recover the data on the platters?
> A: No.

My guess would be yes.  What reason do you have for saying it is no?

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