Finder must be set to always empty Trash securely.

From Apple OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) Workstation STIG

Associated with: CCI-000366

SV-65481r1_rule Finder must be set to always empty Trash securely.

Vulnerability discussion

Finder must be set to always empty Trash securely. In Mac OS X Finder can be configured to always securely erase items placed in the Trash. This prevents data placed in the Trash from being restored.

Check content

To check that the finder will only present the option to securely empty trash run the following command as the primary user: system_profiler SPConfigurationProfileDataType | grep EmptyTrashSecurely | awk '{ print $3 }' | sed 's/;//' If the result does not return a setting, or the setting is not "1", this is a finding.

Fix text

This should be enforced by a configuration profile.

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