Thanks for mentioning this. I installed the attached patch to fix the problems
that you mentioned, except that I didn't add a section on storage media, data
remanence, and data forensics (partly because a lot of this stuff is secret).
If someone would like to contribute text in that area, it
Hi,
shred's man and info pages devote several paragraphs to explain "a
very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in
place."
However, they don't mention that the underlying storage also has to
meet this criterium. In particular, today's widely used SSD drives are
known to
