Re: Erasing magnetic media

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From: Joe Cychosz
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1987 01:42

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In article <1945@crash.CTS.COM> ag@crash.CTS.COM (Keith Gabryelski) writes:

>I am interested in 'Why' 100 alternate 1/0 writes will not declassify some
>media.  It seems to me that after 5 or so random 1/0 writes the original
>data would be so far gone that retreival by any means is impossible.
>
>Enlighten me.
>

Small signal analysis can be used to recover "each layer" of data written.

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From: 3ksnn64@pur-ee.UUCP (Joe Cychosz)
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Subject: Re: Erasing magnetic media
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