On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 19:05 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was wondering if you would consider reducing the number of default > > overwrites for "shred" from 25 to something more like 5? > > As near as I can make out, for modern disks the default should be 1. > That's easy to change. Any objections? > We might choose 2, because of the 1% chance of recovery cited by one of the recovery firms in that paper.
Or 3, because we're paranoid. > There's also the Secure Erase facility built into modern ATA drives, > which it sounds like 'shred' should use if it's available. > Does anybody know how well GNU/Linux supports it? > See <http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/hughes/SecureErase.html>. -- Peter Eckersley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Staff Technologist Tel +1 415 436 9333 x131 Electronic Frontier Foundation Fax +1 415 436 9993 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
