shredding files on a flash drive

Kristian Erik Hermansen kristian.hermansen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 22 22:03:11 UTC 2008


On Jan 22, 2008 1:58 PM, Peter P. <plpeter2006-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Use wipe(1) with suitable options and hope for the device not to use the wear
> balancing mechanism OR make the entire device a single file (mountable FS image,
> encrypted), and wipe that. This second option should work even if the wear
> balancing works. wipe(1) is very configurable. Also reading the Guttmann paper
> on file wiping is a must step imho.

And also read Simson Garfinkel's papers on how he hates what the
Guttmann paper has done for the forensics community.  Simson gave me
an ear-full when he came to my University and I mentioned Guttmann.
He almost even went into a rage about Guttmann :-P
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