On Sun, 23 May 2004, Sam MacDonald wrote: > The Justis Department can ask for any eMail from any vendor and get what > they want. > IANAL With a court order/warrant, which implies some sort of supporting evidence. > 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. > This was a topic at the last TCSA meeting. Zero and then One-out the data X number of times. Run it through a bulk demagnetizer. Soak platters in salt water. Shatter the platters and throw them into X different oceans. Ontrack cares little about the underlying filesystem and OS. They are just reading strings of 1's an 0's from the drive. I agree that having someone from Ontrack speak would be very interesting. Clay, work your magic! _______________________________________________ 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