file shredder

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Analogous to a paper shredder

Noun[edit]

file shredder (plural file shredders)

  1. (computing) 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.

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