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The Devourer

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Spec sheet

Purpose
The Devourer is a portable Windows utility for best-effort, multi-pass local file shredding.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Privacy
The runtime app processes files locally and has no telemetry, analytics, accounts, remote storage, automatic uploads, or runtime network API.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Support
The user guide directs users with persistent problems to open an issue on the GitHub issue tracker and says not to attach the sensitive file.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
License
The project is available under the MIT License.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Deletion modes
It offers Normal, Aggressive, and Extreme modes; Aggressive adds a Windows ReTrim request, and Extreme also fills same-volume free space with temporary random data.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Download
The release page offers The-Devourer-1.0.3-portable-x64.exe for Windows 10/11 x64.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Limitations
It cannot guarantee physical erasure across SSD wear leveling, snapshots, backups, cloud-sync replicas, or other external copies.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Overwrite
It overwrites the primary file stream and detected NTFS alternate data streams with four passes: zeroes, ones, cryptographically secure random data, and zeroes.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Requirements
The packaged app runs on Windows 10 or Windows 11 x64, and administrator access is required only for Aggressive and Extreme modes.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Safety checks
It rejects directories, symbolic links, reparse points, multiply hard-linked files, and files locked by another process.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Security architecture
The Electron renderer is sandboxed with context isolation, disabled Node integration, and a narrow preload API.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Signing
The user guide states that the release executable is not code-signed and advises downloading from the official repository and comparing its SHA-256 checksum.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Storage warnings
Before overwriting, it checks media type, TRIM, BitLocker, and Volume Shadow Copies, and displays warnings where needed.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com
Who it is for
The user guide describes Normal mode as appropriate for most users and Extreme mode as a special-case option that can take a long time and write heavily to the drive.Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

Plans and prices

The Devourer Free Portable Windows x64 app · one regular file at a time · no installer Read 9 Oct 2026 · github.com

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