From kde-usability  Sat Jun 28 23:49:13 2003
From: John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:49:13 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Trash, Delete, Shred
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> On Saturday June 28, 2003 04:05, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 15:15, Jan Schumacher wrote:
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>>> I understand that large menus might be cumbersome, but I personally
>>> was confused, when the shred action was removed from the context menu.
>>> I thought it had been removed from konqueror and only found its
>>> shortcut by accident.
>> 
>> well, it sounds as if this action can't really do what it claims. (does
>> someone want to elaborate on this?) if so, then maybe we should really
>> remove it completely.
> 
> It is possible that an OS could be made to support such a feature.  Instead
> of removing it completely, make it a configure-time option.

Due to inherent physical properties of magnetic drives, truly secure
deletion cannot be accomplished in software.

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/sec96/full_papers/gut
mann/

On the other hand, Panther, the upcoming release of MacOS X, has a new
"Secure Erase Trash" feature.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/file_vault.html

-John

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