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The new version of CIPHER.EXE does all of the same things the old version does, but it has one noteworthy new feature. It has the ability to securely erase deleted files from the hard drive. As you probably know, when a file is deleted, it isn't actually gone. The reference to the file has been removed from the disk's directory, but the file itself still exists and is usually recoverable until it is overwritten by other files. The new version of CIPHER.EXE can be used to overwrite a deleted file so that it cannot be recovered.
