Quote from: P2P on May 16, 2013, 10:54 pmQuote from: entreterra on May 16, 2013, 04:28 amHow might one wipe a computer clean of any trace of tor? I know deleting the files won't totally wipe every piece of memory from the system, but is there a way to do this without formating the hardrive? Or is formating the hardrive the only way?Thanks!Did you go to school? This day and age, every young person should know, from a required computer class, that everything you've ever done on your hard drive is set in stone. The only way to delete what you've done is, basically, the equivalent of scrapping your comp. You have to destroy the hard drive through a hard drive shredder, which is very expensive. Formatting is bullshit, certainly not for the thorough type (the type who doesn't get busted, mind you). However, unless you're selling, I see no reason for you to worry. No one cares you use or used tor, unless they can link it to a felony, which they can't. $35 isn't that expensive for a professional grade shredding service, deguassing however is expensive, both are equally effective. And the theory of formatting does work, it just doesn't give full drive coverage since it tends to do what regular system erasures do by removing the file header and awaits to be overwritten. DBAN methods and secure erasure do work - but only in the hands of somebody who recognises the threat can exist beyond just the files. Many people forget that if they hibernate their system with Tor open, that session is then saved in the hibernation file.