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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by contingencies on Thursday May 28, 2015 @12:48AM (#9616113)
Except that erasure on modern drives rarely actually erases things...
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Re:Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Gove... by cnvogel on Thursday May 28, 2015 @03:44AM (#9616608)
Hence it is advisable to store the encryption key somewhere where erasure was properly accounted for during design, e.G. a TPM (trusted platform module).
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