How To Pemanently And Securely Delete Hard Disk Data

Have you heard of the Edison Chen photo scandal? He is a popular Hong Kong star and was involved subsequently caught red handed with various actress in the industry. Prior to sending his laptop for service, Edison Chen took the trouble to backup all of his ‘secret’ photo and delete them from the laptop.

According to the police, Chen’s “Cotton-candy Mac” computer was sent in for repairs, and an estimated 1,300 intimate photographs of Chen and numerous female celebrities may have been accessed and secretly copied by one or more of the shop’s employees.[9][10] According to Chen, the image files were deleted before the computer was taken in for repairs. source: Wikipedia

Dejavu? Well, deleting a file from Windows or Mac is nothing more than a dressing up rehearsal. The Operating System simply inform the registry not to display the content, but the actual content still exist. “Blank And Secure” is a portable tool to securely delete the data. Secure delete files are required to block the recovering of deleted data. Secure deletion is possible with this program, because “Blank And Secure” overwrites the data with zeros before deleting. The data recovery is impossible after this operation.

For security reasons, it is always best to perform a quick delete on your hard disk.