[PLUG] Data Recovery Services in Portland

[Larry Brigman]

On 6/6/06, Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> Russ Johnson wrote:
> > Steve Bonds wrote:
> >> Although I've heard rumors that such levels of data recovery are
> >> possible (e.g. after a disk wipe) I've never seen it actually done.
> >> Have you?
> > Yes. I used to work just outside the data recovery lab at Symantec. I've
> > also seen floppy disks reassembled after being cut with scissors.
> >
> > I've even recovered data off hard drives, with shareware tools from
> > download.com, after the Windows 98 drive was nuked and paved with linux.
> >> For all practical purposes one pass of writing zeroes is enough to
> >> thwart a data recovery.
> > Obviously you've never realized why the DOD requires 7 passes of a data
> > scrambler for "secret" data, and more for "top secret".
>
> and as a matter of fact, writing all zeroes (or any regular pattern) is making
> it *very* easy to recover the data ;^)
>

It has been almost a decade since the actual data save on the disk
resembles the data
you want.  It all gets encoded to ensure that you have a 'non-return
to zero' pattern on the
disk.