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If people have permissions that allow them to look at the content of your unlinked files, you're pretty much hosed already.



I think the major attack vector for this is lost/stolen laptops and recycled disks.


I'd be just at least as worried about data sitting in named files (not to mention swap). If you're worried about lost/stolen laptops, encrypt the disk.




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