Re: Program to wipe data from disk free space

[Sebastian Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 17:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> To indulge my paranoia I wrote a little ANSI C program to write random
> data to a drive.  I wrote it targeted toward Windows, but it should work
> with minimal editing on any machine with an ANSI C compiler.  It can be
> found at http://www.sol-biotech.com/code/wipeIt/wipeIt.c and I placed it
> in the public domain.

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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