[Freedombox-discuss] Roadmap / Wishlists

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net
Tue Apr 19 16:37:58 UTC 2011


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On 04/18/2011 11:08 PM, John Gilmore wrote:

> The short answer is that it doesn't work at all on flash drives.
> Researchers tried it, disassembled the drives, and found their
> 'erased' data sitting right there in the flash chips.  If you have

I can confirm that (having replicated the results with a couple of
different flash devices).  The best way to sanitize flash drives appears
to be physical destruction.

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