Re: file recovery

On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:47:12PM -0600, Kurtis Peterson wrote:
> http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm - Steve Gibson's SpinRite works on linux
> partitions but you'd need to buy the software and connect your drive to an
> XP box to use it ... from what I've heard this is one of the best forensic
> tools out there (and if Mr. Gibson's other work out there is any indication
> the man's a freaking genius) ... just thought I'd throw that out there :)

I respectfully disagree with your assessment of Mr. Gibson, at least from a
technical perspective. He is a great spindoctor publicity whore but I'd
reserve the term genius for a much more select group of security tool
pioneers before such as Fyodor (nmap), Wietse Venema (TCP Wrapper), Bruce
Schneier (Author of Applied Cryptography) and notable figures here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computer_security_specialists

I will credit Mr. Gibson for bringing some trivial but benefical tools to
the the less sophisticated masses.
Received on Wed Sep 5 18:26:09 2007