For me, the timing of DogAte has been interesting. I've been in the middle of completely overwriting the hard drive on my new laptop (it caught a lovely little difficult-to-uproot virus -- I'd like to send a big "thank you" to the creators of "vundo" -- and in the course of attempting a disinfection, I accidently nuked Windows). In the process of re-installing everything from scratch, I decided to encrypt part of the hard drive.
So, say you want to completely erase sensitive data and/or protect private information from prying eyes. How do you go about it? As it turns out, it's not all that tough, and most of it can be done with software that is absolutely free.
What follows is a Windows-centric description of this process. Similar (and sometimes, the same) programs are available for most operating systems, though.
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