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CNET News: Via Gives Away Disc-Scrubbing Software

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“In an effort to promote a new processor feature, Via
Technologies has released open-source software for thoroughly
erasing deleted files.

“The Taiwanese company’s Intel-compatible chips, such as the C3,
Eden and Antaur, include a random number generator that is useful
for tasks such as accelerating some encryption operations. The
company this week released an open-source program called Tru-Delete
that overwrites files with random numbers…”


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