wiping files
shimi
linux-il at shimi.net
Wed Feb 9 22:14:12 IST 2011
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
> Thank you.
>
> Wiping files is part of pretty good privacy (PGP) - if you want
> privacy you need to wipe your deleted files.
>
>
>
I would trust having them all at encrypted-state at all times (and avoiding
using swap) to be a must better approach.
I couldn't care less if someone takes my random data which he has no key
for, and read it for fun... I suspect this is not too different than reading
/dev/random.
-- Shimi
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