[Gllug] Erase Files Like A Pro

Richard Cohen richard at vmlinuz.org
Fri May 30 10:32:34 UTC 2003


On Fri, 30 May 2003, Alistair Mann wrote:

> Thus spaketh Doug Winter on Friday 30 May 2003 10:26 am:
> > On Fri 30 May Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> > > rm -fr works for me...
> > >
> > > If you're paranoid, wipe is free.
> >
> > There's no way of reliably wiping a hard disc (or a file) in software.
> > If the contents of an HDD are sufficiently secret, you should physically
> > destroy it.
>
> Don't listen to Doug! ROT-13 is a perfect method in software for secreting
> your files.

But double-ROT-13 is 2^2 times safer!

Cheers
Richard


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