What is BitIncinerator

Bitincinerator is a cryptographically secure data overwriting program used for secure file deletion

Why use BitIncinerator?

The problem

When a file is deleted using the OS built in file deletion tool, a lot of the times it is never actually deleted and instead the space it occupied in storage is marked as empty for new data while the actual data is retained just inaccessible to the OS. Normally this is fine as if the data is overwritten by new data later but if the user never writes new data to the disk then the old data can remain permanently which raises the threat of their data being stolen and recovered off their hardrive.

The solution

To ensure the data cannot be read and recovered using professional software, BitIncinerator overwrites the file with cryptographically securely generated random bytes which is written over the old data. This makes it a lot harder to near impossible to recover the old data.

How can I ensure that my data is securely deleted?

Use multiple passes of bitincinerator over your file. This can be done by adding the -passes [number] parameter to the command to run BitIncinerator