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The difference between secure empty and just empty trash?
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<blockquote data-quote="Joe Redifer" data-source="post: 478947" data-attributes="member: 36328"><p>How could the data be retrieved if all empty space was written over with random 1's ans 0's once versus 32 times? Are the files still magically there if it were only overwritten a sparse 31 times? Or is this number just for emotional security?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe Redifer, post: 478947, member: 36328"] How could the data be retrieved if all empty space was written over with random 1's ans 0's once versus 32 times? Are the files still magically there if it were only overwritten a sparse 31 times? Or is this number just for emotional security? [/QUOTE]
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