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1. Nobody has yet proven to be able to restore a harddrive where all sectors have been overwritten.
3. Contrary to what many believes, a full format in windows xp doesn't overwrite all your sectors. It differs from a quick format only by bad sector checking.
Steve Gibson, a guy who knows a thing or two about drives, claims the best (and probably most entertaining, I wouldn't know) way to make sure nobody's ever going to get your data is to simply drill a hole through the platters.
I am not sure about that. Also, if you ask the true experts in the recovery business, overwriting is much more effective, since it destroys data on a much lower level than you can with a drill.
You guys really likes those drills.
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/data-deletion/
"we at Kroll Ontrack see on a daily basis how ineffective it is to merely drill a hard drive"
#10 That is purely theoretical. Nobody can actually do it in real life (they cannot even do it after a single overwrite with just zeroes).
And your drill holes: yes, you will stop normal users, but the experts that have fancy equipment...
You are giving NSA too much credit. They are not Gods