> “We all have SSDs in our laptops now. These are hard to wipe because they come with firmware that stops the same sector being written over multiple times. Thi

> “We all have SSDs in our laptops now. These are hard to wipe because they come with firmware that stops the same sector being written over multiple times. This means the data you want to wipe isn’t completely removed, or at the very least, can be recovered by someone sufficiently motivated,” he says. Is that really true? The idea you need a million passes always struck me as dubious.