Re: Secure deletion

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:13:58 +0200


> In message <19980723103314.24241@bug.ucw.cz>, Pavel Machek writes:
> +-----
> | Go for LD_PRELOAD solution. It should be trivial & it does not belong
> | in kernel.
> +--->8
>
> Someone could then unset LD_PRELOAD to avoid the overwrite.

Which can be considered feature. If someone _wants_ to leak
information, you are not going to prevent him, anyway
And - if you want secure delete which can not be disabled, use /etc/ld.preload.

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