Remembrance of Data Passed: A Study of Disk Sanitization Practices

  • Authors:
  • Simson L. Garfinkel;Abhi Shelat

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

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.