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hexley on Jan 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Paranoia and deletion: the wipe man page

For those on Mac OS X (and perhaps *BSD?), we have srm.

The Secure Empty Trash function is a frontend for this IIRC.

stcredzero on Jan 15, 2011 [–]

I wish there was a version that only overwrite once with 1's. That would be best for my SSD. (Which has wear leveling and is formatted with a journalling filesystem anyhow, so perhaps it's moot.)

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