Comment Re:Oh, the fun and prizes! (Score 1) 222
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"You'll love our fun-filled resort on beautiful Guantanamo Bay!"
You summed this up nicely. There is one more thing to add about using electron force microscopy: It takes a huge amount of time. And it is not as accurate as most people seems to think since it is based on the disks inaccuracy on where the bits are written.
How you delete your drive data depends a lot on what level of security you need. One overwrite is enough for most people. Degaussing and/or physical destruction is only needed as a prevention against theoretical recovery techniques.
A list is only as strong as its weakest link. -- Don Knuth