Name: Anonymous 2006-02-21 8:14
I worked in a decom department for a while, wiping hard drives... but I never knew the difference between a single pass wipe, or a 3 or 7 pass one. I know the disk is written multiple times to ensure that all the data is gone, but what's the point in more than one pass? Surely if a drive has been completely written with 00's, nothing is recoverable... what are the benefits of doing this multiple times?