<div dir="ltr">I know this isn't really the point of the email, but the dd command truncates a file before writing by default, and in that case, the old data can get added to the file system's free blocks without getting changed. If the intention is to overwrite file contents, check out the "notrunc" feature of dd or use shred.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com" target="_blank">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="m_-5216267994561569161zwchr"><div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><span class=""><b>From: </b>"DJ-Pfulio" <<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>><br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br></span><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, September 29, 2016 4:07:48 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] Why Run your own email server?<br></blockquote></div><div><span class=""><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Not true. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Nothing_to_hide_argument</a><br><br>Plus, it is none of their business, until they can show probable cause<br>that something illegal has been done.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>My comment was not "Why worry if you have nothing to hide?"</div><div><br></div><div>More like, "worry more about the email admin reading your sh*t than the feds"</div><div><br></div><div>A friend of mine posted on FaceBook "The FBI can't recover the deleted emails because Hillary used a special program to delete those"</div><div><br></div><div>My response was this:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>S=$(stat --printf="%s" /home/hclinton/mail/INBOX)</div><div>for i in `seq 1 10`</div><div>do</div><div>dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/hclinton/mail/INBOX bs=1 count=${S}</div><div>done</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Not a perfect solution, but it is one of "those program". </div><div><br></div><div>I then added that her admin was not a good admin unless he added a line at the top of that program before he ran it.</div><div><br></div><div>cp /home/hclinton/mail/INBOX /home/cfowler/hillary-email.<wbr>mbox</div><div># Now wipe her copy clean :)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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