Summer of Code Proposal - Looking for a mentor

[Hans Meine]

On Thursday 12 March 2009 00:47:43 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> [...] Then there needs to be a command that does the
> same but also runs 'shred' on the appropriate parts of the disk.

This is getting off-topic, but I want to point out that a recent study (*) 
showed that the rationale behind this "shredding", i.e. the danger of being 
able to retrieve overwritten data using an atomic force microscope is not true 
(anymore) with modern (used) disks.  IOW, it has become sort of an "urban 
legend".

* http://sansforensics.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/overwriting-hard-drive-data/

I thought that would be of enough interest for people on this list,
 Greetings
  Hans