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Re:Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after fact... by barsonme on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:40PM (#27945623)
Macs with SSDs don’t have the 7-pass option because (from the horse’s mouth) it’s only effective for HDDs.
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Re:Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after fact... by thebruce87m on Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:43AM (#27949120)
If you could reliably read data after 6 passes then HDDs would be 6 times larger with the same hardware.

There is the further belief that state sponsored actors would be able to read them, but this relies that state sponsored actors 1) have hardware capable and 2) would only go to those lengths to get the data.

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