OT: cd's again... one last question....

[Mike Schwartz (PC Support)]

> I don't. Not even a little. I bet there is no end of things that can be
> used
> to match up exact tracks from one edge to another, avan across large gaps
> from missing pieces, especially with the help of the other not-missing
> pieces to draw context hints from.
> I bet it's even easy to have it detect mixed shards from different disks
> and
> regroup them appropriately.

> Brian

     The original poster had 100's of data disks to destroy.  My first
reaction was to tell him that the bits and pieces from each should be
segregated into several separate piles, then each pile scattered at
different landfills personally by different trusted people.  Reconstructing
the pieces of 100 disks is way more than 100 times harder than
reconstructing the pieces of one disk. 

     I could offer to scatter them out my airplane window over the middle of
Lake Michigan.  If the pieces would float, I could scatter them over the
deeply forested portions of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan that are, for all
practical purposes, totally inaccessible.

     Reconstructing the pebbles from 100's of destroyed disks would be such
a horrendous task that nobody would attempt it, unless the data was
invaluable to recover.  Then again, look at the painstaking effort that has
gone into the dead sea scrolls and other documents.

Mike Schwartz