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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by colonelpopcorn on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:44AM (#34015020)
That's an interesting idea. I imagine they don't do DoD wipes of their disks because they are probably multi-tenant, right? Can a guest operating system do forensic analysis on the host disk?
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Re:Disk encryption in AWS is close to useless and potentiall... by britneybitch on Friday December 16, 2022 @09:51AM (#34015110)
AWS wipes disks before reusing them (loosely speaking--an EBS volume doesn't correspond 1:1 to a physical disk). Forensic analysis of overwritten data requires disassembling the physical disk, so no, it's not possible.
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