[H-GEN] The Register: Internet anonymity for Linux newbies

[Greg Black]

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Matthew Taylor wrote:

| ?? rm -f blah seems to be pretty effective and destructive to me ?

Not at all -- that just marks the data blocks as being free, but
leaves the data where it is.

Even over-writing data does not prevent well-equipped and
capable people from recovering some or all of it.

Destruction of the media is the only guaranteed method.  Some
tools render data inaccessible to all but the best-funded and
skilled people and that may be enough.  It all depends on just
how important it is for you that data be unrecoverable -- and on
how interested another party might be in it.

Greg

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