The Great Zero Challenge

[Ian Batten]

On 6 Sep 2008, at 21:51, Stephen Early 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
>> 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.

Unless you're a data recovery firm.

ian