| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:10:10 +0200 |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 02:44:18PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: > gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > >What about in memory? On screen? > How does shred or srm help with that either? Oh, they don't. I just wanted to name drop Van Eck. (But if you're paranoid enough to think true file erasure is insufficient compared to encrypted FSes, why aren't you paranoid enough to worry about spoked with radio receivers?) > It'd be interesting, but you could always sit outside my room with a > decent pair of binoculars. How low tech. I could probably more easily come in that window and slap a keygrabber in front of your keyboard in your PS/2 port. (How often do you check for those? What, you don't? Even at work? Tsk...) > Again, if the file is encrypted, it doesnt matter. You shouldnt even > need to delete it really. > Thats all I was saying. I've got no argument with that, I was just expanding the technical issues of erasure (and, incidentally, undeletion; same concerns) in journaling and log-structured file systems, since I *do* know about them. I agree on the futility of "secure" deletion, but whatever... -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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