Hi, this is a little bit OT, so please ask such questions in irc-channels or other forums please. a quick "apt-cache show wipe" (on woody) brings up this: Package: wipe Priority: extra Section: utils Installed-Size: 124 Maintainer: Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.16-8 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/w/wipe/wipe_0.16-8_i386.deb Size: 30586 MD5sum: c294c13d07feeaee895539499af787fa Description: Secure file deletion Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access. . Homepage: http://gsu.linux.org.tr/wipe/ p.s.: thats the biggest reason why i just love debian :) Mark Donaldson wrote: > Does anyone know any software that runs under Linux that does a > military wipe, making file unreadable by deleting file then writing all > ones and zeros, when deleting files. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ > > _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
