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Download the free software to shred files

There was a small introduction on how files are recovered from magnetic media in the last post. In that post I had said about using repeated overwrites to render a file unrecoverable. Sdelete is a command line utility that can wipe off a file and its traces completely from your hard disk without leaving a [...]

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Securely wiping off data from a drive

We all know by now that simply deleting a file would allow others to recover the data using necessary software. So why doesn’t SHIFT+DEL properly remove the data from your hard disk?

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