Meaning

1 senses
  1. A software program designed to overwrite the contents of a data file (or other space on a disk) to prevent recovery of the file contents.

Origin

Analogous to a paper shredder

Analogous to a paper shredder

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Forms

plural: file shredders
Singularfile shredder
Pluralfile shredders

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Word family

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