On Saturday 13 September 2003 11:22 pm, David E. Fox wrote:
Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been
overwritten once?
Forensics :).
I don't understand that well how this works at the lower (physical)
level, but even so, I'd imagine it could be a moot point for
Hi Kaj,
As for fragmentation, it should not make a difference whether
you use delete or shred, the same basic process happens,
as far as file allocation is concerned, and fragmentation will
still occur.
M.
I have to disagree.
[snip]
In Linux - as in all Unixes - fragmentation is a
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when shredding
file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in the windows os
and that the freed space can/is immediately available to be written to?
Unless you are using either JFS or XFS (sorry, I can't remember
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:27:14 +, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shredding it will overwrite the file about 20 times making it
impossible to recover.
Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been overwritten once?
Miark
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Hi!
Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been overwritten once?
Because hard drives use magnetic imprints (I don't know the exact term
for that), even once the magnetic information has been replaced by other
information, the old one should still be present as a kind of
Shredding it will overwrite the file about 20 times making it
impossible to recover.
Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been
overwritten once?
I imagine that if you measure the 1's and 0's with a device that takes
an analog reading, you can tell wether it was
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Hash: SHA1
September 13, 2003 10:18 am, Mathieu Frenette wrote:
Top posting because it's brief.
The difference between shredding and deleting is a matter of degree.
Wipe and overwrite _now_ versus wipe and overwrite whenever you get a
round-to-it. ;-)
Any
Why 20 times? How is it possible to recover a file that has been overwritten once?
Forensics :).
I don't understand that well how this works at the lower (physical) level,
but even so, I'd imagine it could be a moot point for binary files, i.e.,
traces of pr0n ::).
Even if you don't shred,
On Friday 12 September 2003 06:37 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
What is the difference between shredding a file/dir in konqueror and
deleting it?
shred overwrites those sectors on the hard disk where the file was
multiple times thus preventing someone from being able to reconstruct
the info
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when shredding
file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in the windows os
and that the freed space can/is immediately available to be written to?
As for fragmentation, it should not make a difference whether you use
On Saturday 13 September 2003 01:05 am, Mathieu Frenette wrote:
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that
when shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such
as there is in the windows os and that the freed space
can/is immediately available to be written to?
As
On Friday 12 September 2003 07:54 pm, Chris wrote:
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when shredding
file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in the windows os
and that the freed space can/is immediately available to be written to?
Chris:
Unless you
On Saturday 13 September 2003 04:21 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
snip
Anyway - I recently had to buy a PC for my daughter. It came
with something called WindowsXP preloaded. The filesystem was
called NTFS, which - so I'm told - should combine some of the
benefits of UNIX and OS/2. It was heavily
On Friday 12 September 2003 09:28 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Friday 12 September 2003 07:54 pm, Chris wrote:
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I 'assume' then that when
shredding file(s) that there is no fragmentation such as there is in
the windows os and that the freed space
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 16:09, Chris wrote:
What is the difference between shredding a file/dir in konqueror and
deleting it?
you can undelete a file you cannot unshred a file cause it gets over
written.
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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 04:21:42 +
Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Anyway - I recently had to buy a PC for my daughter. It came with
something called WindowsXP preloaded. The filesystem was called
NTFS, which - so I'm told - should combine some of the benefits
of UNIX and OS/2.
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