> it's folded in half, obviously ruined, and covered in gross food waste anyway.

And still has your data on it. Last night's lasagna won't stop Mulder and Scully from taking it back to the lab, and in any year past 2010 it's fairly easy to extract the data from undamaged flash storage.

The "point" is that zeroing out these devices is hard, and recovering their data is comparatively simple. If you want to thwart the law, you'd better be ready to make some precision modification to your hardware.