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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Destroying the encryption key tends to be the only reliable way to put the data beyond use. Physical destruction techniques like the obe in the article have been tried before, and iften leave the data intact, just destroying the driver side of the chips. It's not easy to retrieve the data, but a sufficiently determined and resourced oppinent can do it.

  Obviously, there's no reason not to do both, for added certainty, but if the encryption protocols used in proper FDE are compromised, we have a lot more to worry about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It does seem like it would be simpler and more reliable to use full disk encryption to encrypt the data before it's written, and just destroy the key if you want to nuke the data.