Yes, it's true. The idea of "wipe free space" is to wipe the disk space
that
was taken up by files you've deleted. Very good if you wish to not keep
confidential data. See, Windows doesn't physically delete a file; it just
simply marks it as such, but it's still hidden on the hard drive, so the
idea of this feature is to wipe the hidden space taken up by deleted
files,
so that it's supposedly extremely difficult to find later on.
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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "TONY CRETNEY" <rac@xxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 10:44 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: CCleaner, interesting discovery
If it is true that will be a great pity indeed! Haven't seen anything
about
it myself up to the present.
Tony
Skype tonycu14
Best wishes to all on the list
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:51 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: CCleaner, interesting discovery
Thanks for your comments. I'll read the CCleaner documentation and see
what
this is all about.
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Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristram Llewellyn" <tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:48 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: CCleaner, interesting discovery
"I was looking at the latest version of CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com)...
and came across a very interesting option... "wipe free space"."
Unless the wipe process uses two passes or more of psuedo random noise
it will only deterr the more casual theft of data. It is possible (at
government and national level presently) to posess the facilities to
recover data buried beneath one subsequent write of data on a hard disk
(but not much further). If you really want data to be safe from others
encrypt it.
Regards.
Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
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