Dr. Craig Wright published a paper called “Overwriting Hard Drive
Data: The Great Wiping Controversy” in December 2008. It discusses the
already long existing controversy around wiping hard disks. History
taught us that wiping hard disks should consist of multiple passes to
ensure that data is unrecoverable. However, Craig researched this
subject and came to the conclusion that 1 pass is sufficient, and broke
the myth. Thank you for saving us a lot of time, Craig!
A summary
of the paper can be found here,
and the full paper was published in the Springer Verlag Lecture Notes
in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
