[NBLUG/talk] shred questionj

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sat Aug 12 16:46:10 PDT 2006


On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 01:02:19PM -0700, jimbo wrote:
> 	Which makes no sense to me. Why truncate the file AFTER it's been
> shredded (or really deleted) and then remove it? Huh? Remove it? You mean,
> like 'rm filename?'

Been a while since I used 'shred', but yeah, I believe so.
'shred' just leaves you with a file full of nonsense (which has usually been
written over many times, as to make the data very-hard-to-retrieve).

-bill!



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