On 2003-08-11 Kurt Seifried wrote: > > Obviously I failed to adequately explain the purpose in my post. It > > was triggered by the article "Hard drives offer up secrets" as > > posted in the message "RE: Windows HD image for forensics testing" > > by madmex. I am aware of the residue of information left on a hard > > drive that has been overwritten; though I believe that most > > techniques to recover that data require opening the hard drive case > > and special equipment. > > Nope. Most drive recovery is done via software (i.e. not cracking the > disk open). I'm not a security professional, but I noticed this kind of question appearing on various list once in a while. Since every time there seems to be a different answers, I was wondering: has there ever been proof of recovering data (overwritten just once with zeroes or arbitrary values) via software? I mean real recovery not just restoring one bit and another. Regards Ansgar Wiechers ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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