Calianna Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Aloha, Snubs did a segment on secure deletion software a while back. It's all well and good, however I've noticed that after say doing a Gutmann Method erase, the files are unrecoverably which is all good, but the original file paths are still there, which is basically like saying "Yes the data was here all along". Is it at all possible to delete the original file paths also? Cheers Cali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuroigetsushinde Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 (edited) not sure but zeroing the drive should do the trick id say http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=317243 Edited February 5, 2012 by kuroigetsushinde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
int0x80 Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 wipe can do this. $ mkdir -p /tmp/test/sub1/sub2/ILLEGAL $ dd if=/dev/urandom of=!$/illegal_file.bin bs=1M count=1 $ wipe -r /tmp/test 1 file wiped and 0 special files ignored in 4 directories, 0 symlinks removed but not followed, 0 errors occured. $ ls -l /tmp/test ls: cannot access /tmp/test: No such file or directory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Grievous Posted February 8, 2012 Share Posted February 8, 2012 CCleaner's "wipe free space" would do it just as well as anything else I would think. Can anyone verify this? Or would file tables be in non-free space, which means the government has been talking with file format developers... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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