[j-nsp] Sanitising m/t series routers?

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:45:59AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> If you really care about not passing on your configuration and
> passwords, I really suggest dd. Even if you rm every file, that simply
> marks them as deleted and frees the space for new use, but it does not
> actually remove anything and it's pretty trivial to get stuff back.
> 
> Also, remember to wipe both the flash and disk.

Remarkably trivial, about 30% of my "other people's configs" collection 
came from recovering files from an rm attempt. Of the remainder, about 
half were pulled from /altconfig which people tend to forget about, and 
half were just left there for all the world to find. 

If I had any belief that anyone cared about my feature requests, asking 
for the proper sanitize router function to be imported from the FIPS 
image would be high on my list. In the mean time, if you aren't dd'ing 
you aren't serious about staying out of my collection. :)

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