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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: secure filesystem wiping
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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 13:58:47 +1100 (Australia/NSW)
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In-Reply-To: <38336910.AA589DD2@netquick.net> from "TrouBle" at Nov 17, 1999 09:48:48 PM
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In some mail from TrouBle, sie said:
> 
> is there anything that will securely delete data from the freespace of a
> filesystem, say i have like financial data on my system, and i want it
> deleted, i can rm some-file-name
> 
> but in actuality even though its gone, various foprensic utilities make
> the data recoverable
> 
> is there something to wipe the freespace on freebsd file systems ???? to
> make data deleted unrecoverable ???


alias rm "cp /dev/zero \!1; rm \!1"

or something like that


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