Am 24.01.2015 um 12:37 schrieb Alexander Holler:
Am 24.01.2015 um 11:45 schrieb Alexander Holler:
It uses shred, in the hope it will somedays learn how to shred stuff on
FLASH based devices securely too, once that has become possible.
BTW: This is a good example where technology failed to keep the needs of
users in mind.
Failed completely.
Since ever it's a problem for people to securely delete files on storage.
Also it should be very simple to securely erase files on block based
devices, people have to try cruel ways in the hope to get securely rid
of files nobody else should be able to see ever again.
It's almost unbelievable how completely the IT industry (including the
field I'm working myself: SW) failed in regard to that since 30 years or
even more.
Regards,
Alexander Holler
It should be relatively easy to make that possible: Using secure trim
which erases blocks instead of just marking them as free, it should be
possible without much effort for file systems to implement a secure
unlink. An obvious name would be sunlink(2). Or does such already exist?
I've seen secure trim already exists for some devices, but not sunlink().
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