Package: secure-delete
Version: 3.1-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
An extraordinary claim:
% dlocate -s secure-delete | grep overwrite
Even if you overwrite a file 10+ times, it can still be recovered. This
Perhaps in support of which, the docs include:
/usr/share/doc/secure-delete/usenix6-gutmann.doc.gz
...a 1996 paper speculating about the data remanence of the obsolesced
magnetic media of the '80s and mid '90s; it offers no direct
evidence that a recovery of a 10+ overwritten file has occurred,
on any medium, ever, anywhere.
Suggested revision of package description:
Gutmann method based tools for securely wiping data from files,
free disk space, swap and memory.
HTH...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
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APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages secure-delete depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-34
secure-delete recommends no packages.
secure-delete suggests no packages.
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