secure erasure of files?

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 08:12:49 EST

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hi all

Does anyone know if it'll be hard to enable a <em>secure</em> deletion of
files? What I mean is not merely overwriting it with NULLs, but rather
using a more sophisticated overwrite, like the IBAS ExpertEraser software
(http://www.ibas.com/erasure/)

Is this hard/possible/doable?

roy

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