E3 Security Kit

Fact Or Fiction?

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If you are going to be able to weed out the undesirables, you need to know how these 'privacy and security' tools work. Googling for 'secure delete' will turn up over 200,000 links, most of which are to Evidence Eliminator. A very few of the companies listed have 'honest' marketing campaigns, but that does not mean their software is professionally engineered.

Secure Delete

If ever a phrase or concept be abused, it is 'secure delete'. It implies the software vendor will make sure your deleted files are really deleted - and herein lies the problem: Deleting files - really deleting them - is not an easy task.

NISPOM, DOD, NSA - BLAH-BLAH!

'Internet' software is rarely professional. A typical scenario is to buy some age-old code from a defunct operation, hire in a couple of half-educated Delphi programmers on their spring break, get them to make the program look really good, don't worry too much about the actual workings of the program, then get it out to market fast. Most companies in this category spend much more time and resources on promoting their product. As an example, Evidence Eliminator has not been updated in almost nine years.

When it comes to making claims, most of these companies will throw acronyms at you - acronyms like NISPOM, DOD, and NSA. They will claim their own secure delete technology is in accordance with what the Pentagon or Anakin Skywalker use.

It's all so much baloney.

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