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Re: *nix data wipe tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Georgalis)
Fri Dec 17 21:41:35 2004
From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:48:33 -0500
To: David Cannings <lists@edeca.net>,
"Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene@theregister.co.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com, focus-linux@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20041217164833.GA21160@sta>
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:06:07PM +0000, David Cannings wrote:
>Thomas C. Greene wrote:
>> I've posted the final versions of a few simple, free shell scripts that i've
>> been working on to make data hygiene more convenient on *nix systems. Thanks
>> to list members who helped test them and contributed improvements.
>
>Is there any specific advantage of these scripts over bcwipe?
The introduction indicates it does swap and unused disk space.
http://basicsec.org/tools.html
Linux Wipe Tools: Four shell scripts for securely wiping all data from
the swap partition, wiping unused disk space on the root partition, or
wiping an entire disk, by Thomas C. Greene.
http://www.jetico.com/index.htm#/bcwipe_unix.htm
The BCWipe software is intended to give you a confidence that your
deleted files cannot be recovered by an intruder. BCWipe repeatedly
overwrites special patterns to the files to be destroyed.
// George
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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE
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