Hidden Dangers in Creating Public EBS Snapshots on EC2

Posted by spahl on Sunday September 27, 2009 @04:55AM
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Re:Hidden Dangers in Creating Public EBS Snapshots on EC2 by deutronium on Sunday September 27, 2009 @01:40PM (#847042)

I guess you could eradicate traces of sensitive files doing:

dd if=/dev/zero of=DUMP

Until the drive is completely full. Rather hacky though!

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Re:Hidden Dangers in Creating Public EBS Snapshots on EC2 by erichammond on Sunday September 27, 2009 @11:04PM (#847657)

Are you sure there might not still be sensitive information in the file system journal on some file systems?

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Re:Hidden Dangers in Creating Public EBS Snapshots on EC2 by deutronium on Monday September 28, 2009 @09:42AM (#848394)

Good point, didn't think of that.

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