The Great Zero Challenge

[Stephen Early]

In article <6690F1C8-168F-4812-8870-346257BD9710@batten.eu.org> you write:
>These dudes are challenging people to recover data from a disk that's  
>been overwritten with zeros once.    The silence is deafening: you  
>would naively expect that companies that sell data erasure software  
>would be able to test their own software to show that it wipes blanker  
>than mere dd-ing of zeroes over the top, but clearly not...

The rules of the challenge forbid disassembly of the drive.  It's not
a serious challenge.

Steve