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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
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Subject: Re: secure erasure of files?
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Tom Vier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:12:49PM +0100, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Does anyone know if it'll be hard to enable a <em>secure</em> deletion of
> <snip>
> > Is this hard/possible/doable?
> 
> read:
> 
> http://wipe.sf.net/

The program /usr/bin/shred has existing in GNU fileutils, and thus most
Linux systems, for years and years...

	Jeff



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