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Originally Posted by NIN101 View Post
Security Tips
Password leaks
Most of the passwords which are entered to a GUI, the one of TC included, are saved into a funny database, if you have the auto complete function of maemo enabled. Turn it off or move(See "Protection your files") the database to the encrypted volume. I disabled this feature and
shredded the db. Database path: /home/user/.osso/dictionaries/.personal.dictionary.
Shredding on an Flash-based medium is utterly useless, as the wear-levelling will reallocate sectors all over the "disk". This is also the case with SSD-drives in computers.

The only way is to delete the file and then overwrite the whole free space with zeroes. Not with random numbers, as zeroed memory blocks are usually faster when being written to.
 

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