BleachBit
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Year of inception
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Andrew Ziem
- Latest release
- 4.6.2
- Latest release date
Project health
Introduction
With the help of BleachBit, the system can be kept clean and increase privacy in the process.
Items that can be cleaned by BleachBit include:
- Browser cache
- Cookies
- Internet history
- Temporary files
- Log files
The tool can 'shred' files to ensure the data can no longer be retrieved, opposed to just deleting it.
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