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To: Joel Maslak <jmaslak@wind-river.com>
Subject: Re: Secure Deletion 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 May 1999 09:55:07 MDT."
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From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <3.0.6.32.19990520095507.00840010@india.wind-river.com> Joel Maslak writes:
: As for "secure" deletion...  Why doesn't someone just write a simple
: user-space program to do that.

Because that wouldn't work.

: If all you want is a way to force a file to go away from the command line,
: just rewrite rm.

Because that doesn't work for temporary files.

Warner


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