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John Abreau wrote: > I have a customer who requires that their data be destroyed when > we're done with it. On Windows laptops, they require us to use > PGP Desktop's shredder functionality. > > Four our ftp server, they're still undecided. They did tell us > we cannot put their data on our normal customer ftp server > due to caching in LVM and RAID. > > I've found that GNU coreutils has a "shred" command, and there's > also a "wipe" package available, also a GNU tool. Then there are > some commercial alternatives such as > > BCWipe - http://www.jetico.com > Unishred Pro - http://www.lat.com > > What do these commercial alternatives provide that the GNU tools > don't? I've examined their websites, and I haven't found anything > to help me understand the differences.
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