Cleaning off my hard drive this week, I discovered a few years' worth of tax documents in a long-forgotten-about folder. As I prepared to toss the folder into the trash, I paused to consider whether there was a more secure way to dispose of these files, which contain all the information someone would need to hijack my identity. A quick stroll though the Mac App Store turned up File Shredder, an inexpensive utility that seemed to fit the bill.
Unlike sending an item to the trash which only removes the pointer to the file and not the actual file, File Shredder uses an algorithm to overwrite the file with data and erase it past the point of recovery. With File
