1. Re: Why We Must Fight UCITA
Kat wrote:
>
> 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
The NSA standard was (and still is) 7 writeovers of random data. Unfortunately,
nowadays, even after 7 writeovers, data can still be extracted. I believe a
private data recovery service proved that it would take in the range of 15
writeovers of non-random data to leave no trace of previous things on the drive.
Greg
