Leaving no trace behind! Erasing disk data.

“dd = disk destroyer?” Just proceed with caution.

Photo by Iqbal Hussain Topu on Unsplash

If you are familiar with how memory allocation works in computers then you probably know that when you delete a file it doesn’t vanish into the abyss. Instead, it is still in the memory stack labeled as replaceable and when another file needs to be stored it takes its place. Even after a drive-format all your files are still there, just…