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Not really Secure!
Authored by: raider on Oct 30, '03 04:48:45PM

It was brought to light that Panther has a new feature that automatically de-frags your drive while you use it.

If you access a file of 20MB or smaller, and it is fragmented - Panther moves it to a spot on the disk where it is no longer fragmented, but only simply marks the OLD bits free for use - it doesn't overwrite them.

So even if you use Secure Empty Trash, it will only overwrite the current file, but not the places on the disk that it might have existed before.

So you *might* get a secure delete and you *might not*.

If you are concerned enough about it to use it in the first place, this would negate any real value it held for you...



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