On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file
that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean
room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or
I think the older Norton
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit superstitious to
me! Actually, the giberrish itself is
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit
Christian writes:
I think you can still recover a file that's been overwritten once with
zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean room, of course) and read off the
sectors with a electron microscope (or something like that).
No need to open the drive. Just signal process the analog output from
At 11:19 AM 6/18/97 +0200, you wrote:
Hi Tim,
as far as I know the data is still there (until the blocks that it
occupies are reused). Unfortunately deleting for ext2fs meaning deleting
the last reference or pointer to the file. Consequently the file simply
Is there a way to securely delete a
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs
and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there
who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's
gone; no line, no waiting.. Right
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux FS Question
Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs
and develop a program to do it? I'm sure
Maybe a proper way of doing is to fill the file with zeroes from
/dev/zero before removing.
Regards,
Andree
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On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500
To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux FS Question
Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study
Under the FAT16 system when a file is deleted, it's only removed from the
FAT. Though the file appears gone, it still remains on the drive.
When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
gone for good or is it just removed from view while it remains on the disk?
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
gone for good or is it just removed from view while it remains on the disk?
Nope. It's pretty much gone forever.
Will
On Jun 17, Tim O'Brien wrote
Under the FAT16 system when a file is deleted, it's only removed from the
FAT. Though the file appears gone, it still remains on the drive.
When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
gone for good or is it just removed from view
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