response 226 of 547:

May 14 01:26 UTC 2003

The question I'd ask: is it easier to (potentially) crack root and see the
data on the disks or to actually recover the data once reasonable precautions
are taken to erase it.  The point being that no one should ever expect that
their data on a public access system is 100% secure.

Of course, if STeve or mdw are interested in the old machine, that would
solve the problem given that the scrubbed disks would be in safe hands (for
some time to come).