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backscatter712

(26,355 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:25 PM Oct 2016

What the fuck is "acid-washing" of emails?

Never heard of that IT process...

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What the fuck is "acid-washing" of emails? (Original Post) backscatter712 Oct 2016 OP

It was a 90s thing TlalocW Oct 2016 #1

I've got a pair of acid washed jeans... catbyte Oct 2016 #2

Software. Mega multi swipes of a hard drive. No old data can be retrieved afterward. Mika Oct 2016 #3

Bleaching underpants Oct 2016 #4

Bit bleach sharp_stick Oct 2016 #5

Just the name of the program Foggyhill Oct 2016 #12

Yes acid washing is for jeans Worktodo Oct 2016 #6

It's stuck in the 80s volstork Oct 2016 #7

It's what he adds to his bath soap. TheCowsCameHome Oct 2016 #8

Maybe he was talking about acid washing jeans. kairos12 Oct 2016 #9

The name of the program was bleach something Foggyhill Oct 2016 #10

He means BleachBit lapucelle Oct 2016 #11

It's very expensive... apparently... Whatever the F it is... Thor_MN Oct 2016 #13

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)

1. It was a 90s thing

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

Everything was acid-washed back then.

TlalocW

catbyte

(34,398 posts)

2. I've got a pair of acid washed jeans...

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

Mika

(17,751 posts)

3. Software. Mega multi swipes of a hard drive. No old data can be retrieved afterward.

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

Software - Bit Bleach

underpants

(182,826 posts)

4. Bleaching

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

I didn't know about it but apparently its a way of scrubbing contents of emails.

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)

5. Bit bleach

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

Just a wipe technique.

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)

12. Just the name of the program

Reply to sharp_stick (Reply #5)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:30 PM

Oct 2016

You could do the same thing just from the command line it's a simple command

Worktodo

(288 posts)

6. Yes acid washing is for jeans

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:26 PM

Oct 2016

volstork

(5,401 posts)

7. It's stuck in the 80s

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:27 PM

Oct 2016

Just like trump

TheCowsCameHome

(40,168 posts)

8. It's what he adds to his bath soap.

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:27 PM

Oct 2016

kairos12

(12,862 posts)

9. Maybe he was talking about acid washing jeans.

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Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:27 PM

Oct 2016

Foggyhill

(1,060 posts)

10. The name of the program was bleach something

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:28 PM

Oct 2016

The funny thing is you didn't need it, you can nuke a disk with a 5 letter command on a unix system if you are the admin

lapucelle

(18,268 posts)

11. He means BleachBit

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:29 PM

Oct 2016

He's confusing bleach with acid wash (as in acid washed jeans).

Thor_MN

(11,843 posts)

13. It's very expensive... apparently... Whatever the F it is...

Reply to backscatter712 (Original post)

Sun Oct 9, 2016, 09:37 PM

Oct 2016

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