In article <7pZgb.525069$cF.189548@rwcrnsc53>, Vanguard wrote:
> what patterns Spybot uses. You only get to select the number of passes
> over the file to exercise whatever pattern they use. I suspect Eraser
> does a better job.

For an idea what a determined adversary can do, though, see this paper:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/l...eedings/sec96/
full_papers/gutmann/

or, for those whose newsreaders don't like wrapped URLs:

http://************/3r2w

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