Normally I would agree with this, but a government that wants your communcations be it packets, cell traffic..whatever. Is going to find a way to get it, if your a high enough priority for your government. There's no measure for what they can do to you, law or no law. IMO of course

Utorrent offers encryption just go to options and preferences you can find it there under the bit torrent settings. Its there and I use it. I don't know how good it really is, but I haven't had any problems at all, and I have been using it for about year now.

the worst part is I can remember actually having one of those for my atari and playing some horrible space game.

Ok let me explain, better detail then. I use this prg built in to a ERD build that I have been using for years its....old. You have the option of as many passes as you like. I started with one passe, was still able to retrieve data, even some legible pics, I did 3 passes and no legible pics but some document fragments still exist. Now, in order to actually view with data you put the binary(data strings together) and btw I myself am not a forensic expert. I dabble in it. I have found this subject very interesting mostly because I find hillarious how many people will just sell or recycle their computer without even a fore thought about what they have been doing or saving on their computer for the last 4 or 5 years. So I wanted to create prg in the depot shop I was working at last year to ensure that no used computer hard drive went out the door with someone's personal data on it. Because of the economy people are buying less new and buying and fixing more used computers than ever before.

wow, lol. Not quite enough to get worked up about. The challenge your talking about involve a UNIX protocol, something I know nothing about, but honestly most SOHO to mid level business networks arent using UNIX, mostly windows systems, server, vista and xp. Also most of the zero wipe programs out there are just that 0 wipe on a DOD alternating pattern. I'm not saying the challenge isnt real and Im not saying that you or anyone else is wrong, Im simply telling you what I have seen by example. If there was a unix prg that could be loaded and used without user interaction, and I havent used DBAN yet Im gonna give that a push this coming weekend. Then if all is correct security could be almost guaranteed on one pass, again with enough money, and time, nothing is a guarantee.

if you are trying it from a windows os which is what I use most of the time the answer is I don't think so. Ontrack or R-studio are great prgs for raw recovery or ERD from winternals if you can get it. Most of the salvage jobs I do with damaged drives take forever. Check sourceforge for possible open source options. I have been doing this type of work for four years and I still dont have it all figured out. It takes time and lots of patience and good tools. I use R-studio and ontrack mostly. Unless you can find someone with Encase who is willing to let you use it. Thats a high dollar solution but it works well.

The last one I did was 3 passes alternating. Some data was still available but if you were looking legible stuff you would have start looking for the high priced software.

Impossible is a word not used much in IT. I work for IT firm that specializes in forensics investigation. I personally have extracted data from 3 pass wiped drives using open source software. Now, granted the possibility of you getting whole files gets tougher with each run, but I have done. Some of the software no available on the market can do wonderous things with trashed drives, simply put, if you have enough money and time no data is safe unless you put in in the volcano like the post above.