Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

[Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Matthew Black <Matthew.Black () csulb edu>wrote:

> Seriously? When files are deleted, their sectors are simply released to
> the free space pool without erasing their contents. Allocation of disk
> sectors without clearing them gives users/programs access to file contents
> previously stored by other users/programs.

No worthwhile filesystem will allow you to read a block of disk that you
haven't already written to. Once you've written to it, any existing data
that was there is overwritten.

The same isn't true for block-level access, but as a rule that requires
admin access, and once you have that all bets are off...

  Scott