Wiping Out Data

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> 
>> Richard Nagle wrote:
>>> Very interesting topic, the application that we use, is called "wipe"
>>>
>>> sudo wipe -rcf /home/topsecret/docs/
>>>
>>> all gone... forever.
>>>
>>> -------------
>>>
>>> Cheer's
>>> Rich
>>>
>> Does that really work well on a filesystem?
> 
> Not necessarily, and it may not even depend on the file system. Wipe's
> own web page lays out some of the gotchas that can make "all gone
> forever" a dangerous fallacy. :(
> 
> http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
> 
> 

Mmm exactly what i was thinking. I really don't see how you can be so 
sure about wiping individual files. Even destorying the data at a device 
level isn't exactly bullet-proof.