[sclug] Clearing out file system dead space, was: I have an idea

[John Stumbles]

Ed Davies wrote:

> E.g., after working on a project under NDA or otherwise
> handling confidential information (keys, data covered
> by the data protection act, etc) you don't want to leave
> any blocks from all the various edits and such on a
> laptop which you're going to carry around.

In this instance why would you not have the laptop's disk encrypted?

(Either whole-disk encryption with truecrypt or suchlike, or $HOME 
encrypted e.g. with encfs)

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John Stumbles                                       http://yaph.org.uk
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