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Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It
- thomasjames 14y agoHonestly, in this day and age and with some of the powers the government has been getting in projects like Stellar Wind, a bit of information impermanence for personal data might not be such a bad thing.
- RexRollman 14y agoExactly. Frankly, I would like to read about anti-forensic techniques.
- mitchi 14y agoGiven the speed of a SSD, how long does it take to format it? Must be pretty fast
- pja 14y agoIntel SSDs encrypt the contents of the flash with an AES key stored elsewhere. Once the key is overwritten, the original contents of the SSD are no longer accessible. I'm not sure whether other SSD implementations do the same thing.
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- RexRollman 14y agoThat's an interesting way of doing things, provided that there are no hidden back doors.
- DanBC 14y ago> In general, software secure wipe tools that would overwrite information stored on a hard drive with cryptographically secure random data in several passes. The problem with these software tools is their inability to address and, therefore, access the entire storage capacity of the SSD drive (including system, reserved and remapped areas). This is a problem with traditional drives too. When a drive marks a sector as bad some software (Darik's boot and nuke is just one example of a respected software) cannot overwrite these sectors. ATA Secure Erase has been the recommended choice for years now - it's faster than regular over writing, and it gets more of the drive. If you have to work to a standard (and that's the only reason you'd bother with multiple overwrites) you can do the other overwriting passes later, when you have the time to do so.
- sultezdukes 14y agoDoing nothing about it is a good thing.