Keylogger

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Sat Dec 2 11:48:39 UTC 2017


Ralf Mardorf schreef op 02-12-2017 9:31:
> On Fri, 01 Dec 2017 12:39:59 +0100, Xen wrote:
>> Oh I can shred the history too!
> 
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ man shred | grep -i caution -A4
>        CAUTION:  Note  that  shred  relies on a very important
> assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place.  This is the
> traditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do
> not satisfy this assumption.  The following are examples of file
> systems on which shred is not effective, or is not guaranteed to be
> effective in all file  sys‐ tem modes:
> 
>        * log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those
>          supplied with AIX and Solaris (and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3,
>          etc.)

If I recall correctly the next piece says that this only applies to 
Ext3/4 when journal mode is DATA, which is not the default ;-).

Thank you for creating noise ;-).

:p. Regards.




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