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In article <4qftvl$mjq@news1.infinet.com> dionisio wrote:
>True enough with standard tools. However, there will still remain 
a slight
>trace of the original charge due to the pesky conventions of 
modern
>physics. The magnetic field of the affected bits will be slightly
>deflected from the plane that non-affected bits will be in. Thus, 
it is
>tracable and detectable over a fair portion of the disk. (Even 
bulk
>erasing doesn't quite truely erase a disk. And, a bulk eraser that 
*could*
>effectively eliminate all traces of the data would have two main 
problems;
>A) The thing would be very expensive, both in cost-of-operation 
and in
>cost-of-building/purchasing, and B) It would also have the nasty 
side
>effect of wiping out the data stored on any magnetic media within 
about 10
>feet, and probably skewing some data located an additional 5 feet 
away
>(providing one designs the thing with no trace of EMP; just a slow 
buildup
>and letdown of power. An EMP-based design might actually make 
things
>worse. You might end up deleting the computer.)
>
>There are people who charge $500/hour for such data recovery, and 
they 
>tend to retrieve 90+%.
>
>Trust me, I went to college for this. Don't believe that the 
explaination 
>is true? Run it by a digital electronics professor, or even a 
person with 
>a mere 

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm not gonna get paranoid 
by what someone might find out about me if they were willing to 
spend $500/hr and sift thru the BS to find a morsel of any value.
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