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Category Archives: Privacy

Disk wiping : Myth broken

There are many urban legends in the industry. I did believe in one of them : “wiping a disk to properly prevent data restore requires random writes and several passes”. At least until I found this very instructive article, “Disk Wiping – One pass is enough“. Don’t miss the second part which clarifies some points [...]

Posted 06 March 2011 § Linux § openSUSE § Security § System ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Books review

I just finished reading two electronic books I bought from O’reilly. Here is a short review on them. Hacking: the next generation The purpose of this book is to give to the readers an overview of the most common attacks nowadays. It covers all fields : social engineering, web attacks, networking, etc. It was easy [...]

Posted 16 May 2010 § Defense § Hacking § Security § Web ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Deleteyouraccount.com to easily get rid off social networking

Deleteyouraccount.com is a very convenient website if you consider deleting your account from one of these social networking sites that are everywhere now. Of course, they all do their best to make it difficult, trying to hide it and discourage you. Here Deleteyouraccount comes to help. I will still take a few days of thoughts, [...]

Posted 04 April 2010 § openSUSE § Web ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: