Must we always jump straight to the hydraulic press? Not always. I suppose it depends on your information security case. If your goal is to secure your kids

Must we always jump straight to the hydraulic press? Not always. I suppose it depends on your information security case. If your goal is to secure your kids laptop from the average thief that is heading to the pawn shop, maybe "secure erase" of encrypted drives may be sufficient. If on the other hand one is protecting intellectual property, customer data and so on, then perhaps that average thief was hired by someone with significant resources. I would wager that a percentage of the people reading this comment are using a work laptop and have some IP on their drive that in the wrong hands could cost billions. Even some of the emails I've seen could do significant damages.