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The difference between secure empty and just empty trash?
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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 479814" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>The amount of computing power needed to match all 32 random patterns is hard to come by. We're not talking about something that a bunch of kids sitting around on their PC are doing, we're talking about the 1000 pound heads sitting around their computers trying to break it and then redesign it. Right now the only 2 likely entities in the world with the resources, and time, to do this sort of thing on their own are the US and Chinese governments.</p><p></p><p>It really has no application for the average user (unless there are things on your drive that you don't want to get put in jail for), even in the corporate world. It's actually easier to just use a great big magnet and zapp the drive that way, or physically destroy the platters if security is of that type of concern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 479814, member: 6762"] The amount of computing power needed to match all 32 random patterns is hard to come by. We're not talking about something that a bunch of kids sitting around on their PC are doing, we're talking about the 1000 pound heads sitting around their computers trying to break it and then redesign it. Right now the only 2 likely entities in the world with the resources, and time, to do this sort of thing on their own are the US and Chinese governments. It really has no application for the average user (unless there are things on your drive that you don't want to get put in jail for), even in the corporate world. It's actually easier to just use a great big magnet and zapp the drive that way, or physically destroy the platters if security is of that type of concern. [/QUOTE]
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