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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 10:30:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   @angelastella I usually just wipe the whole drive. there's ways to securely do that, but on an SSD they're not guaranteed to work, and they also will wear it out.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 11:07:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Jeremy

     @mischif it depends on the drive. a lot of consumer-level drives don't do that, or don't do it in a way you can really rely on. (they might say "oh yeah I erased it" in response to an erase command, but the data is still recoverable)

   • Jeremy (mischif@fedi.mischivous.com)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 11:07:33 JST Jeremy

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     @foone Does the drive not do the thing where it transparently AES encrypts things and you "secure erase" it by generating a new key?