On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > Actually it's not superstition at all. I think you can still recover a file
> > that's been overwritten once with zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean
> > room, of course) and read off the sectors with a electron microscope (or
>
> I think the older
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
> >
> > Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
> > I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
> > That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit sup
Christian writes:
> I think you can still recover a file that's been overwritten once with
> zeroes... just open the HD (in a clean room, of course) and read off the
> sectors with a electron microscope (or something like that).
No need to open the drive. Just signal process the analog output fro
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Christian Hudon wrote:
> On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
> >
> > Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
> > I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
> > That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit sup
On Jun 18, Rick Macdonald wrote
>
> Well, you could overwrite the file with gibberish _before_ deleting it.
> I think that's what Norton does, several times if I remember correctly.
> That's to comply with US federal regs, which seem a bit superstitious to
> me! Actually, the giberrish itself is p
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500
> > To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > From: "Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Linux FS Question
>
>
Maybe a proper way of doing is to fill the file with zeroes from
/dev/zero before removing.
Regards,
Andree
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> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:01:23 -0500
> To:debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: "Tim O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Linux FS Question
> Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs
&
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> Is there a way to securely delete a file? Or do I need to study the e2fs
> and develop a program to do it? I'm sure there's lots of people out there
> who'd like the ability to know that when something's been deleted, it's
> gone; no line, no waiting.. Rig
At 11:19 AM 6/18/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>as far as I know the data is still there (until the blocks that it
>occupies are reused). Unfortunately deleting for ext2fs meaning deleting
>the last reference or pointer to the file. Consequently the file simply
Is there a way to securely delete
On Jun 17, Tim O'Brien wrote
> Under the FAT16 system when a file is deleted, it's only removed from the
> FAT. Though the file appears gone, it still remains on the drive.
>
> When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
> gone for good or is it just removed from vi
On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Tim O'Brien wrote:
> When something is removed on a Linux box using the rm command, is the file
> gone for good or is it just removed from view while it remains on the disk?
Nope. It's pretty much gone forever.
Will
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