Re: [LUG] Cryptonomicon and 6 times overwriting

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 07:19:46PM +0000, Adrian Midgley wrote:

> A character in Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (excellent book
> IMHO) erases some files by locating the area of disc where they
> were, and then overwriting that area with zeroes 6 times.

> What is an economical way to do that, please?

I could get my "I write operating systems, shells and file systems"
mate on it. He'd update the filesystem and kernel to allow for a new
system call to react to an extra flag to rm which would perform this
action.

He's a smart cookie.

He is, in fact, the smartest cookie I know.

He's a right goth too.

Steve

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