SHRED for EXT3?

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 28 18:04:08 UTC 2005


Michael Yep wrote:
> 
>>> How much is their data worth?  Probably not that much, or they 
>>> wouldn't have let you take it home.  So delete it to the point that 
>>> it would no longer pay to recover it.  If it is no longer worth 
>>> recovering, it has been effectively deleted.
>>
>>
>>
>> At a guess, it has over 2000 man years into it. It is in a very
>> competitive industry (health care related).
>>
> This is all kinda funny to me since I remembered you said the data 
> transport method was pkzip with a password via email.
> Just curious how many digit passwords do they use, and full character set?
> 

Erm, not quite. The original transfer method was a direct connect
cable. AFTER COMPILATION I have transferred EXECUTABLES ONLY
using pkzip with "encryption". The executables won't run except
in a specialized environment.

Source is a different matter.

Mike
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