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Smart way of doing a wipe is to kill the encryption keys needed to access the data.
by notyourday 8y ago
Smart way of doing a wipe is to kill the encryption keys needed to access the data.
- londons_explore 8y agoIt's hard to 100 percent know your keys haven't been stolen. They are very small things, easily smuggled out in an ICMP packet, and must be in RAM of whatever machine the disk is in. For many businesses, crushing the disk makes better business sense than take the risk that they have historically lost encryption keys and are now about to hand their data away to an attacker.