Dear List, I have to apologize. I carelessly packed an old version of one of the Linux wipe scripts (wipefree1.sh) in the archive (LinuxWipeTools.tar.gz) that I posted. I corrected it on Friday night. If you've downloaded the archive already, I suggest you do so again from http://basicsec.org/tools.html Thanks to Jake Appelbaum <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, who made some good criticisms here on the list, I also included more caveats and disclaimers in the README file so that users won't expect too much of the scripts. chrz, --tcg =============== Thomas C. Greene Associate Editor The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk http://basicsec.org ---------------------------------------------- Subject: New Data Wipe Tools Date: Wednesday 08 September 2004 17:10 From: "Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <bugtraq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> I've created a few simple shell scripts that use /dev/urandom to wipe data from the swap partition, wipe unused disk space on the root partition, or wipe an entire disk. You'll find them at http://basicsec.org/tools.html. Data hygiene is generally easier on *nix because there are fewer hiding places than on a Windows system, but there are no free wipe tools that i'm aware of. So I got busy. This is not a perfect solution, but it's a step. I'd be delighted to knows from fellow list members what I might do to improve them. The scripts are freely available and freely modifyable (is "modifyable" a legitimate word?) PS: See the README file for cautions, exceptions, and caveats. thanks, --tcg =============== Thomas C. Greene Associate Editor The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk http://basicsec.org
