Wipe hard disk and wipe files to stay secure

Today million people are working in offices on million computers. Now it’s no wonder, as a few years ago, having PC at home. You can play the games, read articles, listen to the music, browse Internet pages. And all of these are only files.  

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Points on information storage and security

At present IT-corporations invests millions of dollar in development of information security techniques. But the only problem is researching how to make public information accessible to all users, and confidential data accessible only to whom it’s intended.

Short review on non-software methods of destruction of the information on hard drives

Sometimes, when the highest reliability is needed, it’s using mechanical and other methods of destruction of the information, when HDD is breaking as oneself.

Wipe file and clear disk space

All kinds of information is stored in computers as a files. Each file takes some place on a hard disk. And the first (and main for our issue) problem is you never know where it’s placed, and how much disk space it occupy.

Disk space: free doesn’t mean blank

Let’s repeat, when you delete sensitive files from a disk on your computer, Windows does not erase the contents of these files from the disk - it only deletes 'references' to these files from file system tables. Contents of the deleted file continue to be stored on the disk space and can be easily recovered using any unerasing utility.