-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 reynt0 escribió: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, David Shaw wrote: ... >> whether the filesystem you are using overwrites in place or not. Many >> modern filesystems (Reiser, XFS) do not necessarily overwrite in >> place. More primitive filesystems (like the FAT FS that is used on >> many external disks) do overwrite in place. Linux systems most ...
> Might anyone have any quick info about this issue for MacOS? > From, say, OS10.2's HFS+, through OS10.3 and 10.4's journaled > HFS+, to whatever the current OS10.5 does if different? I would be interested in learning about the subject for windows xp sp2... By the way, I was reading about Kingson Data Traveler USB flash drive memory stick, and it also comes with "spare sectors", and manages them in "mysterious ways", so probably, it is not possible to delete a file in a "secure" way... In conclusion... the hammer-volcano-termite solution is the only reliable solution... which doesn't mean we can't try to do it in a less destructive way, *provided we can afford the failure to archive success* Best Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJIr70yAAoJEMV4f6PvczxAzq4H/RxbHztX2JRb536i8b0Z4ue6 5j1Z793zswNPaJGZwsfxe5tH/WiDWPoR54J7P3VtC/jDK1OAsPfuz0ZDAXRuA32h V8SnXD5lfNuyLkr8D7fd5XKhrOYDlBM6Y8i1775/4r5iPh+zdneV7QI4nJ3ZOKwR +2Q3pcc05cIgRA7q4jHPx4uw0Ac/wSnFm/UcHcoDWGAz4pzOcjZsBBIFGPxRtQ5s tGockVMpgcOhVK3ehyOu5cR5UJkmXXPjTG2u13CvFai7+j864AWhF/H2Z6WvANHt NcgPQyp0zxlchWv+MZTn9l5natXeG1J7U4j/zFc3w6WRjuIYJEE6GcTTDHtVVg0= =iq9L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
