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Old 02-08-2008, 08:19 AM   #106 (permalink)
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Turns out the DOD no longer finds 7 passes acceptable as a means of destroying data, as of 2007. An agency within it, the DSS (Defense Security Service) outlines destruction policies of data.

I still think 7 passes is enough. Electron microscopes and pattern backtracking algorithms can only see so far back into the past of a hard drive platter.
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