Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux

Dave Cinege (dcinege@psychosis.com)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:48:58 -0500

Charles Cazabon wrote:
>
> Actually, it's all-bits-zero, all-bits-one, all-bits-zero. This prevents
> people from reading the previous data from residual magnetic fields underneath
> a disk which has simply been wiped with zeroes, etc. The complete cycle for
> each bit is enough to minimize this risk.

Hmmm I guess we need a /dev/one? (Actually not a bad thing to have)

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