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Re:Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after fact... by sizzle on Sunday July 25, 2021 @10:48AM (#27949534)
I’ve always wondered this, instead of writing many passes of gibberish data that takes many hours, could I simply format the drive in seconds, encrypt the whole blank drive with a long generated password, then format and encrypt a second time in seconds and be done?

Or if I’m feeling spicy, do all this then hit it with a hammer until it’s shattered in a million pieces like my dreams of working in tech.

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Re:Amazon Echo Dot does not wipe personal content after fact... by Kwpolska on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:58PM (#27951875)
If the first encrption would encrypt the entire drive, then you’ve effectively done a 1-pass erase. It might work, but I would still prefer specialized software — perhaps the encryption method of choice would still leave some data unencrypted or untouched. The hammer method also sounds fine to me.
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