Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:42:59 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: benedict@echonyc.com Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971015093743.9017C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.96.971015014117.459A-100000@multivac.narcissus.net>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, Chris Dillon wrote: > > <snip> > > 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.
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