From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 14 23:43:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22353 for security-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:43:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22335 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 23:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.6/8.8.4) with SMTP id JAA12109; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:43:00 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:42:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: benedict@echonyc.com cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > > The point is, if someone stole your SIMMs out of your BOX to try and steal > > data from them, they're out of luck.. If they steal what you THINK is a > > totally blank hard drive or floppy disk that you previously wrote > > sensitive data to, think again. This is why it is standard policy in some > > places for drives that went south to not just be thrown away, but > > completely destroyed with a sledge-hammer. :-) > Or in other words - C2 or not, we are going to need a modified ffs that properly overwrites the freed (via unlink, truncate or other means) storage on disk anyways? > > > --- Chris Dillon > > --- cdillon@tri-lakes.net > > --- Powered by FreeBSD, the best free OS on the planet > > ---- (http://www.freebsd.org) > > There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions.