Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 80.216.20.241]
on November 28, 2007 12:28 PM
One thing that I've been seeking for quite some time is a way to execute FF's "clear private data" function *securely*. As I understand it, the current implementation simply deletes the files in question--leaving the disk vulnerable to forensic inspection, undelete tools, and so on.
To avoid this potential problem on OS X, for example, I would want the "clear" function to do (move data to trash)-->Secure Empty Trash; on Win32 it would be (move data to Recycling Bin)-->Erase Bin with Eraser [http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php] (I believe the commercial version of PGP has similar "secure wipe" functionality as well); and so on. The big problem, of course, is that the secure erase tool is (necessarily) platform-dependent.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to do this? Perhaps an extension that could be configured to call a particular executable (with appropriate arguments) or a script?
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 80.216.20.241] on November 28, 2007 12:28 PMTo avoid this potential problem on OS X, for example, I would want the "clear" function to do (move data to trash)-->Secure Empty Trash; on Win32 it would be (move data to Recycling Bin)-->Erase Bin with Eraser [http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/default.php] (I believe the commercial version of PGP has similar "secure wipe" functionality as well); and so on. The big problem, of course, is that the secure erase tool is (necessarily) platform-dependent.
Does anyone have any ideas for how to do this? Perhaps an extension that could be configured to call a particular executable (with appropriate arguments) or a script?
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