Functionality duplicated by free software - ACBIV

I'm not sure this reviewer understood that NetShred, for example, overwrites the cache contents and then deletes them. Otherwise, any deleted files are recoverable. Files that are overwritten first are not.

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Saturday, September 11 2004 @ 04:47 PM PDT

Functionality duplicated by free software - Tony Walton

But if you're truly paranoid, finder's "secure empty trash" does this as well. Drag the items to be burned (such as ~/Library/Caches/whatever folders) into the Trash and select "Secure Empty Trash" and it does a seven-pass over-write (srm -m for Terminal users)

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Sunday, September 19 2004 @ 01:05 PM PDT