Open Source Java Data Wipe Software

WipeFreeSpace is a program to securely erase/wipe/overwrite/shred the free space on file systems WITHOUT DESTROYING EXISTING FILES, to prevent recovery of deleted sensitive data. This allows protecting the user's privacy when e.g. selling the drive or the whole computer. The following filesystems are supported: - Ext2/3/4, - NTFS, - XFS, - ReiserFSv3/4, - FAT12/16/32, - MinixFS1/2, - JFS, - HFS/HFS+, - OCFS. The following wiping methods are supported: Gutmann-like, random, Schneier, DoD. Additionally, WipeFreeSpace can finalize wiping the filesystem by writing blocks of zeros, which is friendly for sparse files, virtual systems and other places where zeroed-out space is not physically allocated. See the project homepage https://wipefreespace.sourceforge.io and the project Wiki in the menu above. To prevent clear-text data from being left on the drive in the first place, you can use LibSecRm (https://libsecrm.sourceforge.io), which wipes the data on-the-fly.

This frontend makes it easier (and probably more safe) to use the Windows version of dd (http://www.chrysocome.net/dd) program. User can: * Select the disk device (a partition or a root one) * Put a binary image onto the device * Save a binary image of the selected device to a file * Erase the selected device (fill it with zeroes) Suitable for: * Create a bootable USB disks from an ISO images * Backup disks * Make an ISO image from CD disk * Erase corrupted MBR's which Windows can not handle USE WITH CAUTION - it is a very beta version. Note that the app is writen in JAVA, so you need the JRE installed.

ShredBitz is a free and simple file shredder tool that can wipe selected files from any hard disk drive. ShredBitz is written in the java programming language and uses a custom written algorithm for shredding. ShredBitz is a very powerful tool.