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Wipe

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Description
Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync() call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access.
Home Page: http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/
Interface: Command Line
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
stable 0.21-9 0.21-9
testing 0.22-1 0.22-1
sid 0.22-1 0.22-1

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
hardy 0.21-3 0.21-3
lucid 0.21-9 0.21-9
oneiric 0.21-9 0.21-9
precise 0.22-1 0.22-1

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Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.1 2.2.0-35 2.2.0-35
11.0 2.2.0-133.1 2.2.0-133.1

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