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Wipe - Secure file wiping utility
Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic
media is easier than commonly believed; Magnetic Force Microscopy
(MFM) lets any moderately funded opponent recover the last two or
three layers of data written to disk. Wipe attempts to make this more
difficult by repeatedly overwriting special patterns to
the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC
bit to ensure that there is a file barrier between passes and that
each pass is completely written.
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