[Hampshire] Securely deleting files

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Author: Roger Munford
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To: hampshire
Subject: [Hampshire] Securely deleting files
If I had a file whose contents I wanted to remove completely from the
disk, would it be enough to open it and use Fwrite() to overwrite each
character and then delete?




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