On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:22:55PM -0700, Tony Cratz wrote: > Bill Broadley wrote: > > Well shred is for files, not disks. Erasing files is much trickier. Most > > editors make backup copies, undo logs, etc. Not to mention every time you > > edit a file the previous version (typically) gets deleted, thus those blocks > > are on the free list and floating around your disk. Not to mention any > > blocks > > that are swapped out. > > > > I'd consider shred radically less secure than just dd'ing the entire disk, > > which is itself less secure than a secure erase. > > > Us old school Unix people use to say that everything in Unix was > a file, be it a disk or a normal file. >
Those old school people who didn't pay attention to the block that was underneath or the page in memory! -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
