Re: *nix data wipe tools
"George Georgalis" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.bugtraq,gmane.comp.security.linux |
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| Message-ID | <20041217164833.GA21160@sta> |
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 -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:[email protected]