Yes, that's me. Hacker News is the only place I feel I can talk about this kind of thing so it's cathartic. And no, it doesnt work on SSD's. They're black boxes

Yes, that's me. Hacker News is the only place I feel I can talk about this kind of thing so it's cathartic. And no, it doesnt work on SSD's. They're black boxes. However I think data recovery on them is possible with hardware. It's the controller that returns 0's after it has been sent the command to TRIM some free space.