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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by willis936 on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:09AM (#23747034)
“undisclosed reasons”

There comes a point where I simply won’t believe in magic. Whether it’s 3 writes or 7 writes, at some point there is not enough contextual information left on rigid magnetic media to recover any amount of useable information.

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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by giancarlostoro on Monday July 06, 2020 @08:17AM (#23747080)
They might be referring to SSDs which would also be bad to do overwrites on since you are essentially killing the life of the drive. Better off just outright filling up a whole drive.
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