On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:49:39AM +1100, James wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Also what of shredders? There is one in the gnome desktop, how does it work? > Does it follow the blocks in the inode table and overwrite with garbage or > whatever? If I were to write software like this, do I need to run it as a > kernel module? Can I do it entirely in C by dereferencing pointers? I am > still a bit of an amateur with assembly language.
There is a program called wipe, <URL: http://wipe.sf.net/>, which might be a start. If you are using Debian the package is called 'wipe'. > And the software that recovers deleted files that the police use etc, know > any programmes like this? You may wish to check out TCT (The Coroner's Toolkit). It can help in a lot of cases (root breakin, etc.). See <http://www.porcupine.org/forensics/tct.html> for futher info. Anand -- linux.org.au/conf/ | "Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a Attend. Learn. Advocate. | subject ourselves, or we know where we can 6-9 Feb 2002, Brisbane. | find information upon it." -- Samuel Johnson -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
