Remembrance of data passed: a study of disk sanitization practices
Garfinkel, S.L.; Shelat, A.
Security & Privacy, IEEE
Volume 1, Issue 1, Jan.-Feb. 2003 Page(s): 17 - 27
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSECP.2003.1176992
Summary: Many discarded hard drives contain information that is both confidential and recoverable, as the authors' own experiment shows. The availability of this information is little publicized, but awareness of it will surely spread.
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