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On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: |
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> I understand that writing zeros over the file should permanently |
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> delete the data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the |
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> drive... |
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On 31 Jan 2006, at 13:31, Schleimer, Ben wrote: |
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> I just read the docs for shred and it doesn't guarantee that the |
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> data will be erased on a journalling file-system. |
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A solution to this is to shred the whole drive. |
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Stroller. |
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