Re: Wiping Out Data



Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

Richard Nagle wrote:
Very interesting topic, the application that we use, is called "wipe"

sudo wipe -rcf /home/topsecret/docs/

all gone... forever.

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Cheer's
Rich


Does that really work well on a filesystem?

Not necessarily, and it may not even depend on the file system. Wipe's
own web page lays out some of the gotchas that can make "all gone
forever" a dangerous fallacy. :(

http://wipe.sourceforge.net/

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