After reading “hundreds of top-secret NSA documents,” cryptographer Bruce Schneier advised us on some of the best ways to stay secure from NSA spying. He gave five tips, which included: hiding in the ...

Your PC’s operating system and running applications store countless temporary files on its mass storage device. One of the best-known examples of this is web ...

Windows has several built-in ways to remove junk files, including Disk Cleanup and Storage Sense, but they rarely clear everything. Temporary caches, app logs, and leftovers from uninstalled programs ...

BleachBit automatically loads apps installed on your system. If you want support for more programs—over 1200—you can add it via an optional winapp2.ini file. Many applications are supported, but in ...

Linux/Windows: While Windows already has the immensely popular CCleaner, Linux users lack a good program to clean up their drive. Enter BleachBit, which frees disk space, shreds files, and overwrites ...

Okay, I was an idiot. I ran Bleachbit, because an old friend who used to work as a tech. told me it was reliable and safe. I knew most "optmizing" or cleaner apps aren't safe, but this person was ...