1. Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
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From: neksys <i.shoot at REDNECKS.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
> I recently read an article about extremely low level (read: physical
destruction)
> data-loss techniques. Email me privately if you want the URL. They're
designed for
> the hardcore paranoid, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.
>
> >
> > Personally, i'm afraid of this. Umm, really scared.
> >
>
> I'm goddamned terrified.
Norton Utilities for dos (circa 1983?) has a NSA certified eraser (or it
*was* certified in it's day) for data on floppies and hardrives. NSA spec at
the time called for a spec'd number of writeovers of specified patterns. The
amount of time to execute went way up the higher one would set the security
required.
Kat
