on โ24-10-2012 10:41 AM
seller of computer that persistently put "hard drive removed for security reasons" they should put the truth and say i can get more for the hard drive salling it by itself as there are stacks of hard drive wip programs out there that do TOP SECURITY WIPS so be truthful
Kind Regards
on โ26-10-2012 01:22 PM
ye i am positive i have two programs that do this and there is nothing whatsoever left on the drive and if the program can't do the 7 it will reject the drive as faulty
Cheers
I actually think that a drive can be rewritten 100000 times and there will still be remnants of the original data. It may be difficult to retrieve though.
I doubt any government agency would be bothered trying to wipe them, they would (and should) play it safe and destroy them.
on โ26-10-2012 04:31 PM
I always thought that the government (ASIO, CIA, etc) could still retrieve data from anything wiped by a commercially available product.
Given the cost of storage these days, it wouldn't concern me.