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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by edoceo on Monday July 06, 2020 @09:59AM (#23747899)
I found random source to be slow, so, I made Perl script (in the 90s) - basically writing the same random blob over and over. Two passes with different blobs seemed to do the trick

http://edoceo.com/creo/drive-shred

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Re:Brave Browser, wiping history still leaves trace of visit... by giancarlostoro on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:33AM (#23748299)
This is also something I've done, just fill a text file, copy it over and over, eventually look for the old files, it's gone, good enough. It sucks laptops dont come with FDE by default.
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