#file delete

Did you know that when you delete a file, it is still available on your computer? Anyone with some free software can probe the nether regions of your disk, and has a good chance of recovering recently deleted data, and an outside chance of finding scraps of files you thought were long gone.

So how does Lockbin delete your files?

Although your data is always encrypted and your key is never stored on the Lockbin server, we have decided to take the extraordinary precaution of implementing multipass file erasure for deleted files. This means we are multipass deleting strongly encrypted files. 

For efficiency, Lockbin's file delete operations are scheduled to occur throughout the day. Upon deletion, your file is overwritten several times with patterned data, and there's no way its ever coming back.

After reviewing several eraser products, we decided to use an open source project called Eraser. The fact that the code is open gives us some reassurance of what we're installing. 

Eraser is a great product, and works well in a Windows Server environment. We like it so much that we've even gone so far as to implement it on our own laptops. A built in scheduler makes it easy to set configure Eraser to automatically wipe out the files in your trash can.  I have mine set to automatically erase at 6 pm local, the end of my working day. You can also right click on individual files and remove them instantly

So why should we be concerned about ensuring that our deleted files are actually deleted?  We have nothing to hide, right? 

Don't do it because you have something to hide.... do it because it's a security best practice, and because you have a right to your privacy.  When something is deleted, make sure it is absolutely gone.  The only way to do that is to implement a quality multipass erasure tool, like Eraser.