Anonyma wrote:
> Sebastian Gottschalk wrote:
>
>> ~David~ wrote:
>>
>>> What about the linux command shred? Does that work well against forensic hard
>>> drive software?
>> Actually no. It's an outdated software that never addresses modern
>> issues like journaling.
>
> But alternating shred/sync calls does.

Uh, no. This just addresses caching in RAM and at the hard disk.

Journaling means that a copy of the data exists somewhere else, and that
writing to the very same files might end in allocation of new sections
while freeing previous ones, leaving a copy as well.