On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 09:09:33PM -0800, Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka wrote: > Use Linux utility "shred" . > and your problem is solved.
From http://www.linuxsecurity.com/feature_stories/data-hiding-forensics.html: The important fact to note is that when empty space is wiped, slack space for all files remains intact. If file is wiped (at least using current version of GNU shred), the associated slack space is NOT wiped with it! Not sure if the above is actually true, but I doubt the program has changed that much in a month. bcwipe can wipe slack space specifically leaving the rest of the file intact, but I am not sure if it wipes slack when it overwrites a file. I assume that it does (it would be a little silly not to), but I am not sure. Rob
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