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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by tpetry on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:06PM (#28175211)
Destroying the encryption key for a harddrive takes less than a second. Are disks really not fully encrypted when they store sensitive information?
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Re:U.S. Embassy in Kabul Tells Staff to Destroy Sensitive Ma... by tgsovlerkhgsel on Friday August 13, 2021 @06:20PM (#28175394)
First you wipe the keys, then you wipe the drive... then you physically destroy it just to be sure.
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