Re: file shredding tools

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 01:28:48PM -0400, Ben Holland wrote: 
> So then the program would basically have to keep track of how many times the 
> actual file was stored as well as all locations at all times. Wouldn't this 
> kinda overhead be huge? ~Ben 

If what you want is assurance that the data you stored has by 
gosh been erased in every incarnation, then you have to do even 
more than that -- you also need to monitor every program that 
reads your sensitive information to make sure it doesn't write a 
copy elsewhere. You'll probably need to track and scrub your 
swapfiles, too. 

Security question number one: what's your threat model? 
Question number two: what's it worth to you? 

-dsr- 

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