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How many passes do you need to wipe/shred your files to make them not undeletable?
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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…
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-n, --iterations=N
overwrite N times instead of the default (3)Unverified for your environment
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Fix for: How many passes do you need to wipe/shred your files to make them not undeletable?
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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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