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	Jun 19 2009	Y-GUY I'm constantly amazed at the overpricing of Mac Shareware. Might be a great piece of software, but at $25 its overpriced IMHO. Other programs like MacCleanse are a bit cheaper and appear to do more, but even MacCleanse seems over priced. (Version 4.3)		+1
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	Oct 4 2008	MACGUY_81 This seems like a exploitative and uneccessary piece of software, considering all major browsers provide many ways of doing this automatically, for free. There are many different scripts that can be run which will do this for free, automatically, in the background. Or just choose 'Private Browsing' in Safari or 'Clear Private Data' in FireFox, etc. (Version 4.2.2)		0
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Jan 20 2009

BURNINGTHUMB If you clear private data without using a secure delete, ask this reviewer suggests, those private items are recoverable by many off the shelf file recovery tools. If you "forget" to enable private browsing you could leave a lot of private information around - NetShred runs automatically so you don't forget to run it.
(Version 4.2.2)

	May 18 2004	GOSTCODER Safari does this for me with the "Reset" menu item under the Apple menu. If you're seriously paranoid about people being able to uncover your browsing history, you need therapy, and no software program can help you with that. (Version 3.5)		0
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Sep 1 2004

ANONYMOUS Yeah, Yeah..... Go fix ChitChat - It's broke again.
(Version 3.5.1)

Jan 20 2009

BURNINGTHUMB NetShred overwrites the private information. Safari deletes it. The difference is that when NetShred is done no file recovery software can be used to retrieve the information, when Safari is done anyone, even your kids, could recover your private information.
(Version 4.2.2)

	Oct 15 2003	HAPPYBASSETT I like it, I've heard that but its not for shredding files - try SecretShredder for that... (Version 3.2)		+1
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Jun 18 2004

ANONYMOUS SecretShredder is no better. It's an overly simplistic algorithm recommended for cleansing memory chips, not magnetic storage devices.

And there can be good reason for using a real shredder: the FBI prefer Macs today - you don't seriously think they're going to settle for a simple overwrite?

ftp://rixstep.com/pub/gutmann.pdf

Your FreeBSD on OS X will already 'purge' your files (the equivalent of what SecretShredder does) at no additional cost and without any further downloads - consult your 'man' page for 'rm':

man rm
(Version 3.5)

Jan 20 2009

BURNINGTHUMB The information on rixstep is obsolete. Gutmann revised his paper but rixstep "forgot" to revise their site.

The 35 overwrites is just wearing out your hard disk, its not doing a "better" job - that's the gist of Gutmanns revision.

We do make ShredIt X which is a perfect GUI file, folder, disk free space, and optical CDRW shredder. It also includes a safe place feature (sorry command line fans no safe place for you to keep things) so that you don't accidentally shred important files.
(Version 4.2.2)

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