(Msg. 50) Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 5:22 pm
Post subject: Re: Deleting pictures on an SD card [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:40:36 -0700
“Just D” R wrote:> It’s much easier to use some special tool rewriting
> the location occupied by these files with some random
> data. Even ancient Norton Tools were able to do that.
>
> Or you or anybody of your friend programmer can
> write this tool in coupe minutes using any computer
> language.
>
> The algorithm is pretty simple - delete all original files,
> create one or many files depending on the maximum file
> size available for this file system, fill this file or files with
> some random info, finally delete this temporary file.
>
> Even if this file is restored it’s worthless.You are in a dimly-lit room surrounded by humming machines. It is rather cold.
A cypher-locked door is behind you. It is closed.
Before you is a white-board with this incantation scrawled across it in faintly luminous blue marker:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
An old Unix greybeard steps out from behind one of the machines, hands you a quarter, and says, “Here, kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.”
Intoning “XYZZY”, he vanishes.
I have a hard time believing the greybeard would take that kind of time.
He usually walks past with a twinkle in his eye and limitless knowledge disseminates from his aura to all receptive minds in the room, no?
Zarquil
December 23rd, 2008
The archetypical Unix Greybeard would be as described in the article.
The more modern not-quite-greybeard is jaded and bitter that nobody ever attempts to learn, won’t even try to google for their answers first, and as such is prone to fantasies of bludgeoning said luser to death with an IBM Model M keyboard.
Wait, was that my outside voice?
Trever
December 23rd, 2008