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SubjectRe: Unswappable memory needed is user space
On 10 Dec 1998, Paul Flinders wrote:

>
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> >
> > As the disk-drive warms up, it's geometry changes. Data that was
> > written when the drive was cold will be on some place on a track,
> > maybe on the center, maybe on an edge. When the drive is at its
> > final temperature, new data will be written in a slightly different
> > place on the track.
>
> They (also) use the fact that data which has been on the disk for a while
> "prints through" deeper into the magnetic oxide covering. Apparently you
> can quite literally shave off the top of the oxide and read older data
> beneath.
>

May have worked for older oxide media (15 years or so). More modern
media is plated.

Still, to be really secure, use a smelter as one respondent already
advised!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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