The Great Zero Challenge

[Brian Morrison]

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On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:51:38 +0100
Stephen Early <steve@greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> 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 =20
> >been overwritten with zeros once.    The silence is deafening: you =20
> >would naively expect that companies that sell data erasure software =20
> >would be able to test their own software to show that it wipes blanker =
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> >than mere dd-ing of zeroes over the top, but clearly not...
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> The rules of the challenge forbid disassembly of the drive.  It's not
> a serious challenge.

So it's just theatre then? Why are they bothering? Naivety perhaps?

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Brian Morrison

bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk

   "Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in the mud;
    after a while you realize you are muddy and the pig is enjoying it."
   =20
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