[Wolves] Evolution Expunge

sparkes sparkes at phreaker.net
Thu Feb 26 22:29:17 GMT 2004


On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 22:15, Peter Oliver wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, David Goodwin wrote:
> 
> > sparkes wrote:
> > > 
> > > Why do you delete email messages? disk space is cheap and if the police
> > > are knocking your door it's too late anyway ;-)
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda
> >
> > and pray you have fast hard disks, and they don't turn the computers off 
> > straight away.
> 
> There's GNU shred, which repeatedly overwrites data, and can act on
> individual files on some filesystems.
http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2003-March/001403.html
somewhere along the line we get to a program that securely deletes data

sparkes





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