[9531] in bugtraq
Re: Microsoft Access 97 Stores Database Password as Plaintext
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Billy Naylor)
Fri Feb 12 20:08:27 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:18:26 +0000
Reply-To: Billy Naylor <banjo@squiz.demon.co.uk>
From: Billy Naylor <banjo@SQUIZ.DEMON.CO.UK>
X-To: Ian Smith <Smith@IAN.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.990210102446.9298A@pepper.ncinter.net>
>Or run a utility that wipes out free space on a daily basis. There
>are several that I have seen.
>
>I am not affiliated with Jetico other than a user, but I use their
>BestCrypt encrypted filesystem for Windows (which is a great product),
>and it comes with a utility to fry unused portions of your hard drive
>and other locations that could contain old data. The drive wiper is
>available as a seperate download and is free for noncomercial use.
>It's about $10 for the purchased version.
Why pay money for something so simple ?
#!/usr/bin/perl
# cleanse.pl
# Sets empty disk space to zero
#
# number of times to wipe the partition
my $num = 10;
my $count;
my $x = 'x' x (1024 * 1024);
for (0..$num) {
if (open (FILE, '>'.$count++.'.clean')) {
print FILE $x;
close (FILE);
}
else {
print "$_ ";
qx|rm *.clean|;
next;
}
}
sub END {
qx|rm *.clean|;
}
# banjo
1;
