Re: New Data Wipe Tools

From: Thomas C. Greene (thomas.greene_at_theregister.co.uk)
Date: 09/10/04

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    Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:17:05 -0700
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com

    Dear List,

    I have to apologize. I carelessly packed an old version of one of the Linux
    wipe scripts (wipefree1.sh) in the archive (LinuxWipeTools.tar.gz) that I
    posted. I corrected it on Friday night. If you've downloaded the archive
    already, I suggest you do so again from http://basicsec.org/tools.html

    Thanks to Jake Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>, who made some good criticisms
    here on the list, I also included more caveats and disclaimers in the README
    file so that users won't expect too much of the scripts.

    chrz,
    --tcg

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    Thomas C. Greene
    Associate Editor
    The Register
    http://www.theregister.co.uk
    http://basicsec.org

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    Subject: New Data Wipe Tools
    Date: Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:10
    From: "Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene@theregister.co.uk>
    To: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>

    I've created a few simple shell scripts that use /dev/urandom to wipe data
    from the swap partition, wipe unused disk space on the root partition, or
    wipe an entire disk. You'll find them at http://basicsec.org/tools.html.

    Data hygiene is generally easier on *nix because there are fewer hiding
    places than on a Windows system, but there are no free wipe tools that i'm
    aware of. So I got busy.

    This is not a perfect solution, but it's a step. I'd be delighted to knows
    from fellow list members what I might do to improve them. The scripts are
    freely available and freely modifyable (is "modifyable" a legitimate word?)

    PS: See the README file for cautions, exceptions, and caveats.

    thanks,
    --tcg

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    Thomas C. Greene
    Associate Editor
    The Register
    http://www.theregister.co.uk
    http://basicsec.org

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