Keylogger
Xen
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Sat Dec 2 15:59:03 UTC 2017
Ralf Mardorf schreef op 02-12-2017 16:23:
> On Sat, 02 Dec 2017 12:48:39 +0100, Xen wrote:
>> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 02-12-2017 9:31:
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ;-).
>
> While this is correct, it's still worth to mention it.
>
>> Thank you for creating noise ;-).
>
> I wouldn't call such a notice noise. This notice - incompletely quoting
> the manpage - is indeed biased, but since I provided the pointer to the
> extraction of the manpage, the reader is free to read the complete
> manpage. Just mentioning that the history could be shred without giving
> a hint to pitfalls, is much more biased and furthermore it's dangerous.
If you hadn't made a biased statement, I would not have had an issue.
Because then you don't create the impression that this is a very serious
problem, when it isn't.
Creating fear in people for no reason, why do you do that?
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