Flash drives dangerously hard to purge of sensitive data

[Alexander Best]

On Tue Feb 22 11, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> fs at freebsd.org
> Usenix Conference Fast11 15-17 Feb 2011
> 	http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/
> Paper:	(15 pages)
> 	http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf
> Review:
> 	http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/flash_drive_erasing_peril/
> 	"Flash drives dangerously hard to purge of sensitive data
> 	- When secure wiping isn't"
> Ive only read the review so far, but covers topics re file system
> access & file deletion.

i think this is one of the issues that caused a rather long and techy
discussion on svn-src-head et al. regarding rm(1)'s -P switch.

cheers.
alex

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> Cheers,
> Julian
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