

Your sensitive information can still be recovered even after a hard drive is “erased” via software wiping programs. Why is this exactly? Because overwritten data can still be recovered from a hard drive even after running the program several times. However, the Department of Defense and all other affiliated government entities no longer approve of software overwriting as a method to securely erase data.

Claims of “Department of Defense approval” echo through the software wiping industry as means to ensure customers of securely sanitized media.
