From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 484BC138523 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6CE321C080; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A45CFE06B3 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EB233D81A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:37:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.214 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.214 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.211, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GySARn-jS0uD for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:37:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5B6133DA3E for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:37:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tvz1x-0005i9-1D for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:37:57 +0100 Received: from jill.marwnad.com ([74.207.229.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:37:57 +0100 Received: from junk+usenet by jill.marwnad.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:37:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Paul Arthur Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Lastrites: app-misc/secure-delete, app-misc/ccal, www-apache/mod_vhs, app-portage/epm, www-apps/online-bookmarks, sys-apps/i2c Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:37:12 -0500 Organization: Fantasy... Message-ID: References: <1358450490.4605.14.camel@belkin4> <1358454846.4605.21.camel@belkin4> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: jill.marwnad.com X-No-Archive: yes X-No-Ahbou: yes User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: aa0cc8e4-7c2f-407e-b533-d3bacac60152 X-Archives-Hash: 3f08907a0fb7353dc40175cac6113d6b On 2013-01-17, Maxim Kammerer wrote: > All in all, secure-delete has its uses. What are people supposed to > use instead, dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/sdcard/naked_gf_0001.jpg? Perhaps 'shred', which is part of coreutils? Also, it might be enlightening to read the epilogues that Gutmann has added to his original paper: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html#Epilogue -- Having to infer what Unix is solely from a copy of the GNU Manifesto is not really an exercise you want to undertake. --AdB