Then the question asked should be "How do I keep my data safe if it's stolen?", not "How do I overwrote data on my not-stolen hard drive?"
But if somebody would actually be able to sell your family photos to the highest bidder, I'm extremely jealous. My family is not nearly so interesting. On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Brad Tilley <b...@16systems.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: >> What in the world do stolen disks have to do with over writing the >> content on it? > > The thread suggested svnd, softraid and cfs as a counter measure. An > encrypted disk with no key is effectively an over written disk. How is > that point lost on you? What is the difference between data patterns > in an AES encrypted file and a file created with /dev/arandom as > input? > > Brad
