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foidulus

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jan 15, 2007
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is there a difference between Finder's securely empty trash and doing rm -P

if so which is more secure?
 

LPZ

macrumors 65816
Jul 11, 2006
1,221
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is there a difference between Finder's securely empty trash and doing rm -P

if so which is more secure?

The Finder version. Though using srm with no flags is apparently even more secure.
 
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