bloody blisters Wrote:
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> Thurston Moore Wrote:
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> > But, seriously, for security of banking and
> > personal info, you should use:
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http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/
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> sounds like a billy mayes pitch to me. HI THURSTON
> MOORE HERE, USE HEIDI TO GET THOSE STUBBORN STAINS
> OUT. WORRIED ABOUT YOUR BANKING AND PERSONAL INFO?
> NO PROBLEM THE HEIDI WILL TAKE CARE OF IT FOR YOU
> WITH ITS DUAL ACTION CLEANING BRISTLES. KEEP THE
> GOVERNMENT OUT OF YOUR STASH WITH HEIDI. buy my
> product.
I'm also the video professor.
it isn't "heidi", it's Eraser.
Here comes the pitch:
Eraser is an advanced security tool, which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard disk by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
You can drag and drop files and folders to the on-demand eraser, use the convenient Explorer shell extension or use the integrated scheduler to program overwriting of unused disk space or, for example, browser cache files to happen regularly, at night, during your lunch break, at weekends or whenever you like.
The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann's paper "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" and they are selected to effectively remove the magnetic remnants from the hard disk making it impossible to recover the data.
Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defense and overwriting with pseudorandom data.
Actually, I just copied that from the help file. And the software is completely free. Billy Mays would shun me for pitching a product that nobody makes any money off of.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/05/2009 01:22AM by Thurston Moore.