[clue-tech] Terse command lines

[Keith Hellman]

On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:30:37AM -0600, chris fedde wrote:
> Correct.   Deleting a file just removes it from the directory and adds
> the blocks back to the free list.
> 

Just for a sense of closure, 
  $ man 1 shred
for secure deletion.  My favorite option is -u.

Note that modern file systems come with a long list of caveats --- read
all the man page and understand how your file systems are mounted before
you rely on shred.

If I'm storing sensitive data and I cannot investigate enough to be
confident of shred on a particular system (namely, where I have accounts
but no admin privs), I store the file encrypted with gpg from the get
go.

Just my 2c.

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If they want really buzzword-compliant "redundancy" they could add 
another exchange server as part of a "cluster" of "Windows 2003"
servers with "active directory" so that when things break they 
break spectacularly.

-- Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (http://www.ockers.net/); CLUE-Tech mailing list
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