Subject: Re: encrypted swap?
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/05/2001 16:59:09
According to Simon J. Gerraty:
>
>.  If the bad guys could spin the disk 
>they could recover the data. 
>

Yup - either from the fringes of the tracks or by reading deeper into
the media.  Overwriting the data will not completely erase it from
someone who is very determined.

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