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Re: *nix data wipe tools

Subject: Re: *nix data wipe tools
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:48:33 -0500
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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