[Tutor] Re: Shredding files and searching the tutor archives

[andy surany]

I think that we are both right.

Search is working for entries where the date is <10/31/02 (approx.).
Looks like it needs to be updated.

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Lycka <magnus@thinkware.se>
To: andy surany <mongo57a@comcast.net>; Poor Yorick <gp@pooryorick.com>;
tutor@python.org <tutor@python.org>
Cc: Jmllr891@cs.com <Jmllr891@cs.com>
Date: Monday, January 13, 2003 3:43 PM
Subject: Shredding files and searching the tutor archives


>At 14:18 2003-01-13 -0500, andy surany wrote:
>>http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/python-Tutor
>>
>>Upper right secion of the page is a search capability.
>
>But does it work? Since I answered the shredder question
>a month ago, I thought I'd whine a bit to Joshua Miller
>about not doing his homework before bothering the list.
>But searching for "shredder", I got no hits, even though
>the word is used both in Joshuas email now and in the thread
>about "Working with memory with Python" around December
>6 to 8. But what is this? It was Joshua that asked then
>as well. Did you shred that from your memory??? ;)
>
>By the way, I saw that I made a spelling mistake then:
>
> > I think you can safely shred a dick if you just grind
> > it into small enough pieces...
>
>Ouch... That should have been disk, not dick. Sorry...
>
>I also wrote:
>
>>Rule 1. Keep your secrets away from computers.
>>
>>Rule 2. If you can't follow Rule 1, make sure your
>>computer is not networked, and that it's physically
>>secure.
>
>Obviously, a lot of people break this rule and put
>secrets on networked computers. But then physical
>protection is certainly an important aspect of the
>security, together with a lot of other stuff which
>is off topic here.
>
>>Rule 3. There is no Rule 3. ;)
>
>Actually, there is a Rule 3:
>
>If you really need to have secrets on your disk, use
>strong encryption.
>
>But unless you encrypt the entire disk (all disks?)
>this is also unsafe. As I wrote a month ago, there
>might be parts of your data in swap partitions or
>temporary files, left there by the OS or by software
>that you used to work with these secret files. And are
>you certain that there are no trojans or spyware on
>your computer?
>
>
>
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