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Jay Lee wrote:
> On Wed, June 21, 2006 9:05 am, Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Not true. - From "man shred" regarding ext3: In both the
>> data=ordered (default) and data=writeback modes, shred works as
>> usual. Since it does not work on other journaled FS, that's why
>> I suggested it be an option.
>>> Are you using ext2 for your server FS? Encrypting the
>>> partition or the whole storage should be a better solution.
> 
> Is this really necessary though?  Wouldn't it require root or
> physical access to the server to read deleted files?  If a
> malicious user has that level of access you're screwed anyways
> because now they can read mail as it comes in and goes out.  And
> again, this does nothing to prevent clients from caching emails.
> This still seems like it should be performed at the FS level to
> me, have you Googled around to see if any filesystems support a
> "true delete"?

I answered these questions 24 hours ago.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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