On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 10:20:41PM -0400, Eric Krout wrote:
> What's the difference? Can 'delete'd files still be recoverable by
> experts, but 'shred'ed ones cannot?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
Well, they say that the only way to be 100% certain is to steamroller the
disk, but I think its safe to say that shred makes it harder for the experts
to recover the data. In my very limited understanding, delete makes no
effort to actually delete the data - it just marks that disk space as
available. So the data is still on it, unless some other process writes data
over it. Shred overwrites the data several times and then marks the space as
available.
Or so I hear ...
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