we need some mousetraps on the interwebs...

So i was talking to someone today about how when you delete a file, it's still on the drive. As I'm sure you're all aware, even formating it won't work. You have to actually overwrite the files with some sort of random data. I started rambling on about things like DOD standard wipes and Gutmann wipes, and so on...

She asked if I was paranoid. That launched a whole other series of ramblings...

But I was thinking about it again, and had some crazy thoughts. I *know* there is some crazy advanced tech out there. Stuff I can't even imagine. Stuff I probably could never fathom as possible...

And then I imagined some sort of CIA datacenter facility with a brand new kind of supercomputer. Some sort of DNA based computer...

like 500 lab rats, with all of their brains wired together and running linux....

I bet that the idle CPU cycles get spent looking at the Wikipedia article for cheese...

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