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Originally posted by Kaniaz
OK, say you're gonna get sued, go get a dos-based \"shredder\" tool. What this does is, without smashing your harddrive to bits, overwrite all data with tons of shit (set it to do this like, 1,000,000 times. while a VERY long time it's better than spending 11k in fines, right?). You see, when you delete something the file still remains on your harddrive, only it can be overwritten...
However, if you use a shredder say 1,000,000 times or so on your harddrive, it would take, well, like five hundred years to recover that data...
It usually has a max of about 30 wipes before it's not effective anymore.