Off topic: I got distracted by the cookie banner which looks like Nina Brink during the IPO of ISP World Online in 2000, the Netherlands. The brain works in mysterious ways.
I had not heard of trash! It seemed so strange to me that rmtrash was not named trash that I had aliased it. I'm not sure which came first, but if it was rmtrash.... how did the dev miss that? Probably a story there, unless rmtrash is newer.
Mr. Mitnick signed The Art of Deception for me in the early 2000s. I told him it was for a friend who at the time was 'interested in the dark side of computer security'.