Re: FileCopy overwrites the existing file

How would you say that? No one will be demonstrating to you how to do
it, especially that some details might be (read: are) well guarded
company's secret (and top data recovery companies cooperate strictly
with governments).

There is no need do disclose the actual "know-how" in order to
demonstrate the technology in itself - the only thing needed here is
simply recovering overwritten data in a public demo test. However,
AFAIK, no one has ever successfully did it - Uwe has already mentioned
the "results" of one of these tests, and, AFAIK, there were quite a few
tests like that....

Anton Bassov


Grzegorz Wróbel wrote:
anton bassov wrote:
David,

In fact, the only thing I said is that "it has not yet been
*DEMONSTRATED* how to do it in more or less reliable way"......

I don't exlude the possibility that it may have *partly* been done by
some agency. This is why they still incinerate disks with secret data,
although they allow overwriting confidential one. After all, don't
forget about "bad sectors" that can be found on practically any disk -
although they are not accessible to the software, some data may still
be left over from the time when they were, and, at this point,
specially tuned hardware should not have any problem retrieving it.

However, the statement like " any good data recovery company can do it
if data has been overwritten only once" is just a gross
exagerration.......

How would you say that? No one will be demonstrating to you how to do
it, especially that some details might be (read: are) well guarded
company's secret (and top data recovery companies cooperate strictly
with governments). But if you want an empiric proof you can get it.
Overwrite some data *once* take your hdd and request recovery of that
data from a reputable company. It will cost you some money, but you'll
eventually get your data back. To make things easier for the company you
can overwrite your data by zeros only (or by ones). The proof as such
will still hold.

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Grzegorz Wróbel
http://www.4neurons.com/
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