Re: GNU/Linux is Best for Secure File Deletion

On 4/14/2024 3:28 PM, Joel wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
 

GuhNoo/Linux makes you an idiot liar who blindly claims you can't do
such and such on Windows, when you almost always can.
>
In this case:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sdelete

  Interesting, another Russinovich utility. 

The latest version of SysInternals, as of 2024-02-13, has ~160 executables, but a bunch have 64 appended to the same name (so I suppose the other one is 32-bit only).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/
The readme.txt file describes 68 utilities in the suite.
No source code provided whatsoever, but I imagine Russinovich would like to provide it, if for no other reason than to get feedback/improvements from other programmers.
But the source to some of those utilities would provide clues about NTFS and other Windows internals, so they won't release it.

Not really something I'd
use since unlike Russell I don't have untoward data on my SSD, but it
shows that Windows has its share of this kind of available software.

There is a boatload of erasure software out there, of course
https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-destruction-software-programs-2626174