I just want to make it really hard and expensive for the casual pair of
prying eyes to take a look. Thank you both.


"sosrandom" <sosrandom.2ybkp6@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:sosrandom.2ybkp6@no-mx.forums.net...
>
> -Some machines can recover data that's been written over only one or two
> times, however. That's where secure delete standards, such as the
> Department of Defense 5220.22-M, come in. According to this
> specification, overwriting the drive sectors three times with specific,
> different characters constitutes one pass. Many experts recommend seven
> such passes to render the data completely unrecoverable. But reading
> data that has been overwritten by even the simplest shredders requires
> expensive hardware, so unless you're worried about professional sleuths,
> such thorough overwriting probably isn't necessary.-
>
>
> --
> sosrandom