allow users to securely delete files
Reported by steve | July 23rd, 2014 @ 07:38 PM | in 1.11 (closed)
This is being requested frequently for mainly two use cases:
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single-action: user encrypt data and do not want the unencrypted data remaining on their harddrive
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repeated-action: the truecrypt type – basically the same, but use case differs in regards that this is not a one-time action, but a repeated process in the way, that users frequently work with e.g. an encrypted folder. They decrypt, work, encrypt again. In that case again, they of course do not want any unencrypted content from that folder remaining on their harddrive.
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steve January 13th, 2016 @ 10:43 AM
- State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
- Tag cleared.
- Assigned user set to “steve”
- Milestone set to “1.11”
WON'TFIX
In 10.11 Apple removed the "Secure empty trash" option. The fact that all macs are now being sold with SSDs, results in this option no longer being useful.
On SSDs writing zeros over the location where the files where located (which should be securely removed) will not work.
The solution to this problem is either full disk encryption (e.g. FileVault 2) or encrypted disk images (Apples Disk utility or VeraCrypt).
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