On Jul 7, 2004, at 12:11, Marta Edie wrote: > You and your magnets!! I would not dare to go near anything with a > magnet. I am still trying to figure out what it means when I use > "trash" compared to "secure trash" and which one I should use to get > rid of something.
Here is a guess, which could be wrong: . 'trash' simply removes the reference to the file for the operating system (OS), and also tells the OS that the physical space on the disk is available for writing. The actual contents are not removed - they only become invisible to the OS. So... someone with a recovery application would have a chance at piecing the info back together, again. . 'secure delete' does what 'trash' does, but it also overwrites the file multiple times with random data to make data recovery hard to do. > I also am eager to know , Bill, what this security signed ? means in > your last e-mail. It means that Lee is gonna kill me, because it means that I sent a signed message to the user group list. There was some talk of signed messages in a past thread - try going to thawte.com for more info. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 27. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
