In-Reply-To: <75a101c38dd8$40064170$1200a70a@watdougmoen> Show me another >> method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely unrecoverable manner >> that quickly. > >A ramdisk. > >Doug Moen. > > Section 7 of Peter Gutman's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" touches on the fact that data can be retreived from RAM with varying degrees of success. Corrections are always welcomed. Paper available at: http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gutmann/