Secure Deletion Of Files Paths

[Calianna]

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

[kuroigetsushinde]

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

[int0x80]

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

[General Grievous]

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...