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How many passes do you need to wipe/shred your files to make them not undeletable?

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Mar 15, 202622940 views
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Problem

If you have a private data on a recent, normal hard drive - how many passes do you need to delete the data to make it unrecoverable? Not in the sense, that a forensic team of 20 experts with a budget of 100 million euro or dollars and 10 years of time to restore a couple of bytes from a known addre…

Error Output

-n, --iterations=N
          overwrite N times instead of the default (3)

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Once. Modern magnetic media are quite efficient, and leave behind very little evidence of former bit positions. What is left behind requires electron microscopes and/or high-tech magnetometric (or whatever they're called) scanners. All such devices …

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