Thursday, June 11, 2009

Secure Delete

I was working on a sensitive file on my Mac, when I was done with it, I wanted to delete it securely. Since I love to do things in the Terminal, I found this neat command called "srm" which stands for, you guessed it, secure remove.

Usage: srm <filename>

It takes a little longer than normal rm but its worth it for the security.

It also works on Linux systems, you will need to install it. On Ubuntu just type:

sudo apt-get install secure-delete

If you're a Windows user there is a tool called "sdelete" from Microsoft.

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