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  1. my 10+-year old password is not on that list on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 1

    My password, unchanged for ~10 years, is not on that list either.
    I've just confirmed that the password I chose back then was still valid
    as I changed it today.

  2. tell a white lie for a 9-bit fingerprint on EFF Publishes Study On Browser Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    With firefox 3.6.18pre, a carefully chosen User Agent (below), default HTTP_ACCEPT headers and noscript, panopticlick says that my
    fingerprint conveys 9.01 bits of identifying information.

    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20091221 Firefox/3.5.7

  3. shred (of the GNU fileutils) works well on How To Really And Fully Wipe A Hard Drive? · · Score: 2
    Source is here: fileutils-4.0.41.

    For the theory behind it, see "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory".

    On-line documentation (if you have the package installed already):

    $ info 'file util' basic shred