++ [ originally posted by Alex
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Yeah right, I'm not buying your Zebra scheme
You know how a binary file consists of 1' and 0's. Well when you zero it, then you wipe the data in the file, still follow me?


But you don't wanna waste all day on this so you just zero the file link, that way you can't find the file physically on disk. But if you wanna make sure there is no data left, you gotta zero the whole area where the file was, hence it becomes perfectly zeroed