Re: Help with (relatively) securely deleting files?

From: Bev A. Kupf (bevakupf_at_myhome.net)
Date: 04/10/05 

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:28:02 GMT

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:01:48 -0400,
    Barry Margolin (barmar@alum.mit.edu) wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately GNU shred is not on this system.
>>
>> Beverly
>
> So download it.

Machine's not on the network. Actually it is on an intranet, I'll have
to ask if it can be given internet access.

> I think it should be easy to write a perl script that accomplishes this.

It does have perl, so that's the route I'll go down if the machine cannot
be given internet access.

But in theory, if I had done what I originally proposed, why wouldn't
it have worked? After all every unused block on the disk would have
been filled with random data. Would that not overwrite the blocks
formerly used by the (deleted) files?

Beverly 

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Many a smale maketh a grate -- Geoffrey Chaucer

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