Thread: script to wipe all sensitive user data - guinea pigs (/lemmings) wanted, apply within!
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2011-02-08 , 19:10
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#32
Originally Posted by casketizer View Post
Normally there shouldnt be anything but user data in the ~/.* dirs.
Certainly your selective approach might be safer, depending how the apps you use play by the rules.
If I had stuff to hide and wanted to wipe my N900 asap w/o being prepared for it in advance, I'd punch in those lines I wrote....
there arent many/any apps i use which would have information useful to the enemy, my plan was to be sufficiently prepared in advance to press the button and worry no more, yet be able to pick up my n900 and use it as normal straight afterward, reconfiguring or reinstalling all my apps would be a nuisance to say the least.



anyway moving on... if theres no more suggestions for sensitive areas i may be ready to turn it into a script, so to do this i would...

save the command as say- panic.sh
somewhere that won't be deleted by the script (/home/user/panicscript/panic.sh for example)
chmod 777 /home/user/panicscript/panic.sh
then i just have to root panic.sh in xterm

is this correct?
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