Keylogger

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:48:39 +0100, Xen wrote:
>Ralf Mardorf schreef op 02-12-2017 9:31:
>> CAUTION:  Note  that  shred  relies on a very important assumption:
>> that the file system overwrites data in place.  This is the
>> traditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do
>> not satisfy this assumption.
>
>If I recall correctly the next piece says that this only applies to 
>Ext3/4 when journal mode is DATA, which is not the default ;-).

While this is correct, it's still worth to mention it.

>Thank you for creating noise ;-).

I wouldn't call such a notice noise. This notice - incompletely quoting
the manpage - is indeed biased, but since I provided the pointer to the
extraction of the manpage, the reader is free to read the complete
manpage. Just mentioning that the history could be shred without giving
a hint to pitfalls, is much more biased and furthermore it's dangerous.