Shredder ?!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:36 +0700, Chanchao wrote:
> Having a 'shredder' icon to represent a regular move-to-trash or even
> filesystem delete is seriously bad.  It's a lie, it implies things are
> shredded securely, but they aren't they're merely moved to the trash.

Good point, file a bug


> Secondly, is there an 'actual' secure shredding program/applet available
> for Ubuntu?  Something like 'Eraser' on Windows that will do multiple
> over-writes with random data?

The coreutils package contains "shred", and there is the package wipe