Re:Securely Erasing Your iPhone or iPad with a Power Drill
by klyrs on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:14PM
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Picking through landfills for data sounds gross to you, but people do it. Find the keys to a crypto wallet, and you've won the lottery. Folding your iDevice in half won't remotely cover it.
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Re:Securely Erasing Your iPhone or iPad with a Power Drill
by joenot443 on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:47PM
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Do we have any evidence or any stories of this actually ever happening? It’s among the most far fetched yet oft-repeated hypotheticals I hear these days.
Think of how rare it would be to find a working thumb drive or ssd in a landfill, amidst the mountains of literally everything else. Then think of the intersecting scenario of someone being foolish enough to store keys on a device they later throw out, while also leaving that wallet active elsewhere. I’m sure in a landfill somewhere such a treasure exists, I just don’t think anyone’s ever, ever finding it.