Unless you work for the CIA, I think you are overestimating your abilities. Filespace 
that has been overwritten will not have any old data on it, the blank space at the 
end of the written area could  in theory, but the original file fragmentation would 
make that a pretty extraordinary feat.







On Friday, March 28, 2008 at 7:20 am, Charlie Hadden wrote:

>That won't stop prying eyes. You need a security deletion program (try to Google 

>that). I won't tell you which one is better or for what stupid reason I would choose 

>one over another. Bottom line you need to have something write random 1's and 0's 

>over the deleted information, hopefully numerous times. Otherwise I can go into 
a 

>repartitioned and formatted H/D and pull up anything, including pictures, text and 

>E-Mail including e-mail addresses and browser histories. It's just a matter of how 

>private do you want to be? 

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