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From: Paul Arthur <junk+usenet@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:38:01
Message-Id: slrnkfh2p8.aea.junk+usenet@shasta.marwnad.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c by Maxim Kammerer
1 On 2013-01-17, Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su> wrote:
2
3 > All in all, secure-delete has its uses. What are people supposed to
4 > use instead, dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/sdcard/naked_gf_0001.jpg?
5
6 Perhaps 'shred', which is part of coreutils? Also, it might be
7 enlightening to read the epilogues that Gutmann has added to his
8 original paper:
9 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue
10
11 --
12 Having to infer what Unix is solely from a copy of the GNU Manifesto is
13 not really an exercise you want to undertake.
14 --AdB

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