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It may also be of note that if you use reiserfs, you're out of luck. I |
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emerge secure-delete and it does not work on reiserfs. I'm not usre |
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about ext3 but it does journal so it may not work or may not work well. |
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Those forensics folks sure are good though. I have heard they can get |
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it back even after you have wrote alternating 1's and 0's to the drive a |
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dozen times. I wonder how they do that? |
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Dale |
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P.S. I like to top post, does this tick anybody? I also prefer top |
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posters since my email opens at the top instead of the bottom anyway. |
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Saves me from having to scroll down. |
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Glenn Enright wrote: |
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>On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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>>app-misc/secure-delete |
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>Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old data |
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>during delete, because the data structure is so abstract? So in this case a |
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>simple rm and poof files gone? Or are forensics beyond this now? |
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