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Current Newswire: 9 of the Best Free Linux System Monitoring Tools Complete Shell Audio Player for Linux Based on Ncurses: CMus 100 Essential Skills for Geeks It’s Official: Bilski Kills Software Patent CrunchBang Linux 9.04.01 5 Fast and Lightweight Linux Distros that Chrome OS Should Beat A Possible Future of Linux - Online Live Environments? Hannah Montana Linux X86 Basic Edition Digium Asterisk: Rising in the Fall? Review: Gwenview 2.3 - The Powerful KDE4 Image Viewer Sr Solaris Engineer The Computer Merchant, Ltd US-VA-Arlington Post A Job | Post A Resume Tools to Delete Files Securely in GNU/Linux Jan 7, 2009, 04 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (2944 reads) [ Thanks to dave for this link. ] "wipe "wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media. It compiles under various unix platforms, including Linux 2.*, (Open+Net+Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS 5.5.1, Solaris 2.6. Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access." Complete Story Related Stories: Easy in Linux, Almost Impossible in Windows(Dec 17, 2008) Shred and Secure-Delete: Tools for Wiping Files, Partitions and Disks in GNU/Lin(Dec 03, 2008) 10 Mistakes New Linux Administrators Make(Dec 01, 2008) Recovering Deleted Files By Inode Number In Linux And Unix(Aug 12, 2008) Using "shred" to Securely Delete Files(Feb 28, 2008) Linux.com: CLI Magic: Securely Deleting Files with shred(Mar 07, 2006) ONLamp: Please, For the Love of All That's Recoverable, Shred Your Hard Drive!(Mar 04, 2005) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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