From owner-freebsd-security Fri May 21 18: 7: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from theverge.com (CDR16-24.accesscable.net [24.138.16.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACC2014CA6 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 18:06:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charlesiii@theverge.com) Received: (qmail 31994 invoked from network); 22 May 1999 01:03:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theverge.com) (24.138.16.23) by 24.138.16.23 with SMTP; 22 May 1999 01:03:27 -0000 Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 22:03:27 -0300 (ADT) From: Charles To: Snob Art Genre Cc: Patrick Bihan-Faou , Darren Reed , Gregory Sutter , wes@softweyr.com, imp@harmony.village.org, ilmar@ints.ru, posix1e@cyrus.watson.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: secure deletion In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > If I understand correctly, it's conceivable that someone could break into my > system over the network and get access to the raw disk device, and thereby > read data that have been deleted but not overwritten. That's a good bit > easier than physically breaking in and taking the disk. If your data is that important what are you doing on a network in the first place eh? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message