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ShredIt -
Reviews, Customer Comments
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"ShredIt is a great utility. Works as advertised - how often do you see that!"
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"Any data that you don't want others prying eyes focused on should be destroyed... [ShredIt] will shred data on the hard drive, an external hard drive, a floppy disk, a zip disk, windows formatted media, a RAM disk, any disk you can attach you can attach to your Macintosh (except Read-only disks and CD ROMs)."
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"Anyone who has this program installed can have a ShredIt garbage can that acts like a real high-security shredder for computer eDocuments."
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"You can buy ShredIt from Mireth Technology (www.mireth.com) for Macintosh OS 8/9 as well as OS X. With these tools you can dispose of your PC and keep your secrets. Remember, you have the right to remain silent. And so does your discarded hard drive."
Article: "Hard drives dumped; information isn't -
Don't be smug in thinking personal data has been erased"
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Larry Magid
The Mercury News
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| "Recently, two MIT students found during their two-year study that over half of the hard drives collected had recoverable data. Even more eye-opening: A good number of those drives contained personal information, such as credit card numbers, medical records, and personal letters. "
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"As most folks know, emptying the trash simply removes a directory address; nothing is really erased. This can be a good thing: remember the last time you hit delete by accident? Still, any user with access to your machine can easily recover your deleted files without your consent. Or, you may want to be sure your personal information is erased before transferring ownership of a computer or drive. ShredIt, by Mireth Technology, ensures that things actually deleted. "
Article: "Mac shareware Essentials"
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Sandy Foderick
The Pulp (Mar 2001)
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"Head of the Herd" December 1999
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| "When you delete a file from your computer, only the file reference is deleted. The data is still retrievable...Drag a file to ShredIt and watch it disappear forever. "
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"Conclusion: avant de vendre ou de donner votre ordinateur, vous devriez effacer soigneusement l'information qui s'y trouve. Voici comment proceder...Quelques logiciels...
... pour effacer des disques durs internes:
- Mac et Windows
ShredIt "
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"I recently purchased the ShredIt utility and it works wonderfully. "
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"Macsimum rating: 7 out of 10 ...
ShredIt can shred data on the hard drive, an external hard drive, a floppy disk, a Zip disk, windows formatted media, a RAM disk and just about any disk you can attach to your Mac (except read-only disks and CD ROMs). You can shred items already tossed in the trash. ShredIt X offers optional electronic document shredding standards compliance (US DoD, NSA, Gutmann), a configurable overwrite pattern and number of overwrites. ...
... one good trick is all you need. "
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"It works! I'm back in business. Great application, great support! Thanks! "
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| "As more companies, organizations, and individuals find reasons to upgrade their computers, the problem of how to safely discard used equipment continues to amplify.com...If you clear your computer of personal information yourself, it's best to use disk-cleaning software. "Personal information" includes your Internet browser's cache, cookies, history; your email contacts and messages; your documents; your recycle or trash folder; and all nontransferable software. The best way to clear this is with a disk-cleaning utility that overwrites all the sectors of your hard drives, making your data unrecoverable. Listed below are examples of recommended disk-cleaning utilities.... "
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