Do you know what happens when you press SHIFT+DEL, or when you empty the recycle bin? Actually, nothing much! You see, computer software and hardware have traditionally been designed to protect the information that is stored by the user. Just because you delete a file or a folder, it doesn't necessarily mean that all the information is gone forever!

Strict legal requirements are now in place for protecting user data from unauthorized use as well as preserving and erasing (sanitizing) records. In order to meet legal compliance obligations, data security has become an area of the highest concerns for computer professionals.

Ironically, computer storage design has been about protect user data at all costs. Hence the humble "Recycle Bin" and "Unerase" commands are common mechanisms that have been built into operating systems try to prevent accidental removal of user data. Even if users "delete" all their files, they can be recovered from "recycling" folders or by special utility programs.

What this means is that true computer data erasure should be something of an anomaly for a computer system. However, the consequence of these measures taken to protect and speed access to user data in turn makes that data vulnerable to recovery by unauthorized persons. If data is not erased beyond recovery, it can be recovered with little effort, from discarded, warranty repaired, or resold disk drives.

FastDataShredder is a fast and simple-to-use program that provides you with the capability of reliably erasing data and preventing access to data from retired computer hard disk drives. Data sanitization needs arise differently depending upon the user application, but whether it is for security and/or privacy reasons, you can rely on FastDataShredder to keep your data secure.