or you can snap your ssd in half or shoot it if your american
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Cool but it's windows... If you're going to be serious about privacy there's a lot more that needs to be done, like switching to a Linux distro.
You don't need to do any of this.
If your drive is not encrypted, then this won't save you. It takes time to overwrite files and if your computer were the target of any adversary, they would simply unplug it immediately and then image it.
If your drive is encrypted, then you can just overwrite the headers that contain the key slots. This would take hundredths of a second.
Curious choice to write a c++ program for this instead of doing the same thing in a powershell script.
One feature it should have: delete itself after running to leave no traces of such a tool.
That was my first thought, why is this not written in a scripting language. Any one.
I mean probably because the scripting languages typically don't provide the lower level utilities necessary to securely wipe files?
You're not deleting files in a typical sense. You also need to scrub over those files so they cannot be put back together forensically.
You also need to scrub over those files so they cannot be put back together forensically.
Look at the code, though; it doesn't do any of that.
You can kick off a trim in powershell and erase all the whitespace. https://blog.thomasdamgaard.dk/posts/2022/03/06/trim-filesystem-from-powershell/
You can also do secure delete on files from powershell and HDD free space wipes. https://www.majorgeeks.com/content/page/how_to_securely_delete_files_in_windows_10.html
That or make some attempt to do a free space wipe, or prune the registry, or, you know any reason whatsoever to actually write it in c++.
It's probably a sufficient wipe to keep your partner or kids from finding stuff, But it's not going to stop a state agency. Like they won't have logs from those services from your IP address. Like your registry isn't absolutely chocked full of your history and the history of those apps.
Forensic analysis on that drive will net them most of every one of those deleted files.
And frankly of all the things to wipe, wth is up with steam?
Dafuq people , stop selling drugs :D
Then who would sell me drugs?
Asking the right questions
Since we’re discussing Windows privacy here…
What I’d really like is something that creates a situation like VeraCrypt plausible deniability, but where the base image gets updated regularly so that the timestamps and temporary file usage also look plausible for a computer used today.
Then instead of running an app like this, you just log out, and when you log in with the wrong password, it presents a plausible if mostly empty userland that overwrites the real encrypted data as new files are written to disk.
Use Tails
I prefer Luigi when picking my sidekick.
How is that useful in this discussion? I need windows because I play CoD with my kids. I still like the concept of this specific windows tool.
You don't really need to justify why you want to use Windows in this case.
You use Windows because you want to, That's reason enough.
Any further justification just provides points for folks like this to latch on to
hAVE yoU TrIED wInE??🍷
Who's coming to search your CoD files?
Who's coming to search the stuff on your tails distro?
How sensitive are your CoD files?
What makes you assume I only have cod files on my pc? I'm not running dual boot on my pc.
Linux nerds can be exhausting tbh :)
Then, how's derailing with CoD useful in this discussion and you're calling others exhausting, lmao.