Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought saw something in the news recently where a software company is releasing a product that will permanently erase data from your hard drive when you want it to.
If you recall, when you delete a file, all that is really done is the link in your FAT on the hard drive is erased, not the actual file. So the file still exists, but your computer just doesn't know that it is still on your hard drive. This really wouldn't be all that hard to code... instead of erasing the FAT link, write dummy bits over everything in the file, then erase the link in the hard drive's FAT... problem solved.
Don't let others solve your problems if you can solve them first:)
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought saw something in the news recently where a software company is releasing a product that will permanently erase data from your hard drive when you want it to. If you recall, when you delete a file, all that is really done is the link in your FAT on the hard drive is erased, not the actual file. So the file still exists, but your computer just doesn't know that it is still on your hard drive. This really wouldn't be all that hard to code... instead of erasing the FAT link, write dummy bits over everything in the file, then erase the link in the hard drive's FAT... problem solved. Don't let others solve your problems if you can solve them first :)