Problem deleting files from Android. HELP!

[gmcbee]

Gotcha. Use encrypted externals myself. 325 days until what?

[Zytin]

Originally Posted by gmcbee

The last hard drive I had, from a Gateway running Win 95, I soaked in a bucket of bleach for a week before beating it with a large rock.

Yeah, I don't really have anything to hide, and the no such agency could undo everything I do, but, still.

It pisses me off that "commercial grade" wipers and shredders are SUPPOSED to do the job, yet, a commercial grade recovery tool can recover files. Are they all LYING to us? One may never know.

This was my first Gateway model the 386. Memories................



I really don't have anything to hide either; but still prefer to keep things private.

I used to think file shredders rendered files unrecoverable. There seems to be some question about this. CCleaner is not the first shredder that I have used over the years and past shredders were probably not doing their job.

I have on a thumbnail drive somewhere a "super-shredder" program and it takes hours to shred (overwrite) files (a lot of files). It makes me question how thorough a program CCleaner is? I think if you do a 3x overwrite (CCleaner) you are pretty safe; But who knows? I just smash the drives.

NSA shreds files in a confetti shredder and then burns the shredded files! I imagine they do the same with hard drives: wipe them for hours and then pulverize them.