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On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 12:53, Fred wrote: > How is "wipe" any different from "shred", which is already on your linux > system? Dunno. Could be that they're basically the same. > I keep my /tmp partition as ext2 for that sole reason. Anything > sensitive goes there, and I can shred it afterwards. If you want to be more secure, you could always have /tmp be a tmpfs (aka a ram disk). Then the data is never stored on a hard drive anyway. Well, excluding swap I suppose. Nevermind. -- Computers are like air conditioners: They stop working properly when you open windows. Cole Tuininga Lead Developer Code Energy, Inc colet at code-energy.com PGP Key ID: 0x43E5755D
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