Tag archives for Privacy

  1. Free Secure Delete Utilities: Blowfish vs. Eraser

    Sometimes, you need to make sure that a file you’ve deleted is really gone. I use about 7-8 different computers in a typical week, and on all of them I use utilities that do daily secure wipes of all free space. Fortunately, there are some very good freeware apps to accomplish this. For the most…

  2. Jon Udell on Silly Privacy Screwups

    InfoWorld’s Jon Udell writes about the the silly security holes that can exist when people obsess about forms and internal data security and don’t take a step back to look at a system as a whole. In the example he writes about, Udell is able to gather a lot of information about people who go…