[Leaplist] The DD drive challenge

[patrick]

Here is a challenge, where a Western Digital 80 GB drive with a folder
and two files on it is hit with the DD command, and you win if you can
recover the name of one of the files or the folder.

Purpose is to dispel rumors that a drive need be multiply written with
zeros to erase all data.  Government agencies and professional drive
recovery specialists refuse to take this challenge.

Representatives of some who were contacted quoted their engineers that
they have already proved that recovery after a Unix DD command is
impossible.

http://16systems.com/zero/index.html