[Cialug] a thought on srm

Todd Walton tdwalton at gmail.com
Sun Jan 31 23:44:10 CST 2010


On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Kenneth Younger <kyounger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I then had a realization that the command I was using to securely delete the
> sensitive information actually left behind the file name of the file I was
> deleting in my bash history. But that also got me wondering where else
> things might get left behind and thought I'd see what everyone's thoughts
> were on that.

Memory.  Do you wipe your swap on shutdown?  It's good hygiene.

--
Todd


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