Secure Delete utilities for Linux EXT3

[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

> >>dd if=/dev/zero of=/partition/you/want/wipe/clean
> >>
> >I'm looking for something similar to sysinternal.com's 
> sdelete utility 
> >that uses Windows Defrag API to idenitify free space and 
> overwrite it 
> >with zero's or random stuff.
> 
> You could replace /bin/rm with a program that repeatedly 
> copies random data
> over the exisisting file before deleting it.
> 
> The only way to be totally sure the data's not recoverable 
> involves a 3
> pound hammer and an oxy-acetylene cutting torch.

The US Military spec says to grind the media to powder, then burn the
residue.  That is the specified treatment for classified media that is being
"deprecated".


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