---
id: 4296
title: "PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Flaw"
source_domain: bishopfox.com
source_url: "https://bishopfox.com/blog/pgp-desktop-wipe-free-space-advisory"
published_at: "2005-12-08T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["advisory", "forensics", "ntfs", "pgp", "anti-forensics", "slack-space"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4296"
lang: en
---

# PGP Desktop Wipe Free Space Flaw

## Summary

Vincent Liu's Black Hat 2005 advisory: PGP Desktop's Wipe Free Space utility failed to clean NTFS file slack space, letting the Slacker tool hide data the wipe should have erased.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** bishopfox.com
- **Published:** 2005-12-08T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://bishopfox.com/blog/pgp-desktop-wipe-free-space-advisory
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4296