From: "Rick Wash" <rwash@citi.umich.edu> > This technique has one advantage that I can see being very useful -- it is > easy to delete large amounts of data quickly. Imagine you hear the feds > knocking on your door -- you just unplug your fiber, and let all the light > (aka your data) fly out into the room. Your data is gone, permanently. > If the latency is a minute, then it only takes a minute to delete everything > -- all 6.5 GB of data according to your calculations. Show me another > method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner > that quickly. A ramdisk. Doug Moen.
