wipe utility

[Cole Tuininga]

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.

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