Re: Secure Delete for Mac

[Frank Barton <bartonf () HUSSON EDU>]

I believe it was removed because of the move to SSDs, and the "limited"
number of write-cycles.

Frank

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 3:26 PM Bellot, Clayton H <cbell1 () uis edu> wrote:

> From the Terminal on 10.14, you should be able to use the “-P” switch with
> the rm command:
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> “Overwrite regular files before deleting them.  Files are overwritten
> three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff
> again, before they are deleted.”
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> Hope this helps,
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> Clayton
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> *From: *The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <
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> *Date: *Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 12:56
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> *Subject: *[SECURITY] Secure Delete for Mac
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> Apologies if this was hit in a previous post.
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> I am looking to take the pulse of the group regarding secure delete
> solution for Mac. I understand that it was removed in a previous version. I
> am hoping there is something similar to Eraser for Windows?
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> Thoughts?
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> Cheers,
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> Chad
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> Chad Tracy
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> Director of Information Security, Policy and Compliance
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> Bates College
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Frank Barton, MBA
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IT Systems Administrator
Husson University