When you normally delete your files in Mac OS X, the operating system is only forgetting where those particular files are placed, while the data still physically remains on the drive.

Beginning with Mac OS 10.3, Apple enhanced its security by introducing the Secure Empty Trash feature, which follows the U.S. DoD pattern of overwriting data seven times.

Permanent Eraser offers an even stronger level of security which consists in the implementation of Gutmann Method. This utility overwrites your data thirty-five times, scrambles the original file name, and truncates the file size to nothing before Permanent Eraser finally unlinks it from the system. Once your data has been erased, it can no longer be read through traditional means.

Requirements:

· 6 MB RAM.
· 1 MB Available HD space.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New Service plug-in for Snow Leopard.
· Added 64-bit Automator Actions for Snow Leopard.
· Faster scanning file sizes.
· Smoother appearance of progress meter badge.
· UI improvements for the alert dialog.
· Fixed an issue when trying to delete an application which contains the DotMac framework.
· Fixed improper sizing of frameworks.
· Fixed a crash when trying to erase non-empty folders that could be erased.
· Fixed a crash when minimizing the application in Snow Leopard.