[Gllug] Erase Files Like A Pro

Doug Winter doug at pigeonhold.com
Fri May 30 09:26:31 UTC 2003


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.

doug.

-- 
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action
arise, human science is at a loss. -- Noam Chomsky

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