Re: Program to wipe data from disk free space

On Saturday 09 August 2003 17:32, koxenrider@sol-biotech.com wrote:
> To indulge my paranoia I wrote a little ANSI C program to write random

to make sure, that really no data could be reconstructed you should wipe this disk with special characters for several times. it's the same effect as writing to a video cassette containing a movie already. the data will be written to the tape but portions will still remain on the tabe though

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