Dawn of the Undead Data

If you think that formatting a drive will wipe out its contents, think again...

https://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,88118,00.html

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 02, 2005
  I KNEW putting that file in the recycle bin just wasn't enough.
  
  
  Luckily, I've got a hard drive shredder handy.
• Anonymous
  January 02, 2005
  Yep!
  
  the data is really there unless you realllllyyyyy deeepppp scrub the disk.
  
  or melt it :-)
• Anonymous
  January 11, 2005
  Well, in enterprise environments, hard disk drives should be seen as CONSUMABLES!