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SoftTalker
6 months ago
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Bypassing disk encryption on systems with automati...
Smashing the disk with a hammer takes seconds. Or dropping it in a shredder.
Used disks are not worth hours of time to overwrite with random data. Just physically destroy them.
DarkAtom
6 months ago
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Or a furnace. That usually leaves no trace of the physical disk having ever existed, which may be important for <insert state actor/military here>.
minitech
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That’s wasteful, inconvenient, and not even necessarily unrecoverable.
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Used disks are not worth hours of time to overwrite with random data. Just physically destroy them.