luis villa cvovtieguyorg 10907 jeff bone wrote whole notion deleting digital data fundamentally broken fiction lawyers phbs like think level physical nearimpossibility think even secure delete methods compromised last several years id argue economic costs requiring allowing obligating deletion circumstances outweigh benefits data considered inherently immutable copyable durable notional entity described data evolve call versioning hrm one hand youre right hand lots places purposes law purposes policy safely assume deletion actually occurs line probably subject interesting paper purposes user deletion happens longer access data maybe clear definition hard drive wipingshreddingwhatever really moot user point unless want sue get access luis tue 05 aug 2008 234047 0400 fork open service analysis