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Re:SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find by kovar on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:42AM (#2291622)
Greetings,

There's some truth in here, and also a lot of hype. Plus ca la change, plus ca la meme chose. We've been losing digital evidence to technology ever since the first bit was written to a rotating drum.

And, even more interesting, they're completely ignoring the other side of the coin - some evidence is very hard to destroy on SSDs.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/solid-state-flash-translati...

If you want to securely store and then delete data from SSDs, use encrypted volumes. Otherwise, don't count on it being unrecoverable.

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Re:SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find by pluies on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:50AM (#2291638)
Greetings, non-French comrade! Your quote is a bit off — it reads "the more it changes it, the more it the same". A better way to write it would be "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." :) [/language pedantic]
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Re:SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find by kovar on Saturday March 05, 2011 @10:55AM (#2291644)
Whups, my very rusty French is showing. Thanks!
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Re:SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researchers find by forensic on Saturday March 05, 2011 @05:00PM (#2292590)
Wow, a tactful grammar nazi!
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