minus-squaredellish@lemmy.worldtoLinux@programming.dev•How stupidly easy file recovery is on Linuxlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoThat’s basically it, just for paranoid information security. I figure if it’s so easy to bring a deleted file back, it should also be easy to ensure deleted data is actually destroyed. linkfedilink
minus-squaredellish@lemmy.worldtoLinux@programming.dev•How stupidly easy file recovery is on Linuxlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 days agoJust wondering, is there an inverse of this? Find files on disk flagged as OK to overwrite and have all bits set to 0? linkfedilink
That’s basically it, just for paranoid information security. I figure if it’s so easy to bring a deleted file back, it should also be easy to ensure deleted data is actually destroyed.