for anyone who was in any of the #GNOME #matrix rooms a week or so ago... the flatpak version of element keeps its cache at ~/.var/app/im.riot.Riot/config/Element/Cache/Cache_Data/. you can use something like wipe to securely erase it.
EDIT: wipe and shred and co. won't work on an SSD. use something like blkdiscard instead.
Is shred bad for erasing SSDs?
Whenever I sold a drive I've zeroed it once with shred from a live environment: sudo shred -vzn 0 /dev/sdX Before I double-checked it wasn't mounted. This is the fastest way to securely erase a dr...Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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in reply to Lynnesbian • • •wipe's last update was in 2004 to add support for solaris so uh i don't know if it will work the way it's mean toPaul Richards
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in reply to Pinguin • • •@pinguin i didn't see any of the images, but apparently they contained some pretty horrible illegal stuff
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Unknown parent • • •@lorgonumputz @pauldoo alright so according to this: unix.stackexchange.com/a/59334…
shred,wipe, et al just won't work on SSDs because of how they function. the best you can do is a tool calledblkdiscardwhich will politely ask the SSD to wipe the file. failing that, you have to wipe the entire SSDIs shred bad for erasing SSDs?
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