The Justis Department can ask for any eMail from any vendor and get what they want. Dban works great but our local data retrieval company (Ontrack) may be able to get anything off a hard drive given enough time. With that said, maybe someone from Ontrack would be nice enough to speak at a TCLUG meeting some time. They may (I would guess they do) even know Dban and be able to tell us if they can recover data from a drive that Dban has been used on. Sam. johnnyfulcrum wrote: > > Hi- > > I have a friend of a friend that needs to make sure an email is > removed and cannot be recovered from his/her harddrive. > > I said no problem - I can physically destroy the HD or, if you want to > use it again I can DBAN the HD and reinstall, and if you don't want > to go that route, we can find software to rewrite over (an over) the > empty blocks etc etc... (any other ideas here?). > > (S)He then asked about the server that had the email - in this case it > was hotmail.com. I said I hadn't a clue about how to make sure that > when (S)he "trashed" the email on hotmail - that it really "went > away". I also had no clue if the "LAW" could get their hands on the > email via hotmail.com even if we cleared the local computer. > > Can anyone on the list help me address these concerns? > > thanks > John(nnyF) > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org > Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list