[LINK] Internet Explorer V8

[Rick Welykochy]

Jan Whitaker wrote:

> East-Tec Eraser 2008 protects your privacy, identity and confidential 
> information and removes all evidence of your computer and online 
> activity. Eraser exceeds U.S. Department of Defense standards for the 
> permanent erasure of digital information when erasing your Internet 
> history, Web pages, pictures, unwanted cookies, chatroom 
> conversations, confidential documents you want to get rid of or files 
> deleted in the past.

I had a quick squizz on the website to see if the erasure is
done securely, i.e. multi-pass hard drive wipes to ensure that
the data is *really* gone.

Just deleting a file and leaving it in the free sectors is not
enough for security. And just overwriting the freed sectors with a bit
pattern is not enoguh. Secure erasure is required, susually up to
10 or 15 passes to securely remove data.

Of course a really sensible option is to encrypt your drive.

cheers
rickw


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