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Date:      Thu, 20 May 1999 17:36:43 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Joel Maslak <jmaslak@wind-river.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Secure Deletion 
Message-ID:  <199905202336.RAA08650@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 09:55:07 MDT." <3.0.6.32.19990520095507.00840010@india.wind-river.com> 
References:  <3.0.6.32.19990520095507.00840010@india.wind-river.com>  

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In message <3.0.6.32.19990520095507.00840010@india.wind-river.com> Joel Maslak writes:
: As for "secure" deletion...  Why doesn't someone just write a simple
: user-space program to do that.

Because that wouldn't work.

: If all you want is a way to force a file to go away from the command line,
: just rewrite rm.

Because that doesn't work for temporary files.

Warner


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