Re: 60 Minutes says that "E-Mail is not private."

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From: dionisio
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00

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Jamie (jamie@multiverse.com) said:

}The total time on-disk at site A would be about a second.

One slight problem. There are "recovery experts" that can snatch the bits 
off of a disk, even if it's been formatted and each bit individually 
re-written over 10 times.

The data never truely "becomes one with the bit bucket", it merely 
becomes more expensive to access.


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