Destroying files

[Gerrit Holl]

Erno Kuusela wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 1999 21:38:09 -0400, Gordon McMillan <gmcm at hypernet.com>
> wrote:
> 
> writing zeros over the data does not make it unrecoverable.
> there are numerous companies that specialise in this kind
> of recovery.

You should do it three times.

> now, the python file objects seem to be missing a melt() method...
> perhaps this can be added for python 2.0? or perhaps a more suitable
> name would be self_destruct(), so it would not be tied to any single
> method.

.destroy() for writing zeros over it three times and unlink() afterwards.

regards,
Gerrit.
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