Shreding History

[Jerry Feldman]

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:26:56 -0400
"Samuel Baldwin" <shardz4217 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What's the best way to remove a file and history from a computer so that it
> could never possibly be found?
> 
> I know I can run 'shred' on my hard drive but I'd like to have things remain
> intact.
> Also, I need to erase stuff from windows as well as linux. Mounting a drive
> from linux or a livecd is not a problem.

Another one for Windows is SecureClean by White Canyon. This will
actually go in and remove data from already deleted files. Remember
that the way Windows deletes a file is strictly by marking the file
deleted in the directory. 
The Linux file systems are much different, but the data still exists in
the free list. Note that shred(1) may not work properly on all file
systems. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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