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[Neil Aggarwal]

Florian:

> > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
> Note that this paper is 13 years old and the technology used by hard
> discs has changed since that quite a bit.

The author addresses that in his Further Epilogue:

	This is why I've never updated my paper (I've had a number of 
	requests), there doesn't seem to be much more to be said about 
	the topic. 

So, basically, he says it was not a big deal then and it is even
less of a big deal now.

	Neil

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