Formatting your hard drive before you sell it on Ebay is not enough to permanently erase the data on disk. The Geeks are Sexy blog (aren't they, though?) rounds up a few disk "white-out" applications ...

Drag files to your computer’s trash, and they’re not really gone—most can be recovered with basic tools. Whether you’re wiping a single file or scrubbing an entire hard drive, the Data Shredder Stick ...

“Neither erasing files by emptying the recycle bin nor formatting hard drives will destroy data permanently,” explained Mike Inamine, president of BluestSoft, Inc. “So if you want to safely sell, ...

If i have some sensitive informations (just credit card info, social security, etc. nothing illegal) on my hard drive, how can i permanently destroy it. I mean i want it so that no one could possibly ...