Re: srm anyone?

[francisco <frisco@blackant.net>]

> Has anyone checked out 'srm'?
> http://srm.sourceforge.net/

Have you checked the archives?

Secure data deletion makes the rounds once or twice a year; srm has been 
mentioned before.

To summarize: how do you know all blocks are being overwritten (bad blocks 
on disks may be reassigned), rm(1) has a -P flag which may be good enough 
for your needs, yes there are mil specs for this kind of thing but who 
cares, you're really looking for encrypted fs's (vnd(4) can do this), you 
really want to melt that metal down.

-f
http://www.blackant.net/