Securely delete files...

[Sven Radde]

Hi!

Am Mittwoch, den 20.08.2008, 21:09 -0400 schrieb Faramir:
> The idea is
> to make deleted files (not whole drives) unrecoverable to commercial
> recovery software.

The german IT-magazine c't did such a test quite some time ago (in 2003,
IIRC) and found that a data recovery firm was unable to recover anything
overwritten with one single pass of zeroes.
Naturally, the files overwritten with multiple random/special passes
etc. were equally unrecoverable.

cu, Sven