Even if not all bits can be error corrected successfully, surely there's enough correct bits remaining to recover some secrets. A 512-byte sector with 100 byt

Even if not all bits can be error corrected successfully, surely there's enough correct bits remaining to recover some secrets. A 512-byte sector with 100 bytes stuck is "unreadable", but I wouldn't want my secrets to be read out in some raw mode from the 412 good bytes.