As you seem to be aware, erasing electronically stored data in a manner that makes it unrecoverable requires much more than simply using the delete function on your computer. Most folks understand ...

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"Deleting" a file does nothing of the sort: the file is still on your hard drive, you just can't see it anymore. Cheap file recovery software will reclaim the data in a flash. Which is why smart folks ...

Wiping your computer's hard drive is a somewhat drastic yet highly effective measure to restore your computer to peak operating efficiency. Freshly installed operating systems often perform better ...

I am using all Macs so I've formatted my 512MB USB Thumbdrive w/ HFS+ (Mac OS X). I'm going to sell it to a good friend of mine and I'd like to wipe the drive just as I would if I sold a HD. I ...

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In macOS Mojave, you can choose to encrypt and decrypt disks on the fly right from the desktop. Using this convenient Finder option, we're going to show you how to encrypt a USB flash drive (or "thumb ...