========================================================================== + ^ + | Ray Arachelian | Amerika: The land of the Freeh. | _ |> \|/ |sunder@dorsai.org| Where day by day, yet another | \ | <--+-->| | Constitutional right vanishes. | \| /|\ | Just Say | | <|\ + v + | "No" to the NSA!| Jail the censor, not the author!| <| n ========================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 11:12:00 -0400 From: Sal Denaro <Sal@panix.com> To: Ray Arachelian <sunder@amanda.dorsai.org> Subject: Re: FCPUNX:Macintosh [and perhaps other OS] Security Alert (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1995 01:05:06 -0400 From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: Macintosh [and perhaps other OS] Security Alert

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A number of months ago, I discovered that various Macintosh "unused diskspace" wipe utilities (Norton, Burn) fail to wipe the unused slackspace at the end of the last block allocated to a file. This leaves NumberOfFiles*512Bytes/2 = several kB of recoverable data on your average drive.

I can verify that this is a cross-platform bug. The Dos/win3.1 and Win95 versions all have the same flaw. -- Salvatore Denaro sal@panix.com Spinning dreams with angel wings Yes, I use PGP torn blue jeans/a foolish grin