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Erase those files

    12-Oct-89 23:15:52
Fm: douglas.toth 76340,603
To: Steve Ahlstrom 76703,2006
Steve- For the truly paranoid, I read somewhere that one can determine the last four or five "bit settings" on a hard drive. This is (if I remember correctly) used by IRS and FBI types to reconstruct illegal data that has been erased/wiped/written over from a hard disk. The Norton Utilities Wipedisk for the IBM world will fill a file with alternating passes of 1's then 0's based on a command line option (up to X times). too? Just a thought to help us paranoids to sleep better… Doug T.