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one wait why am I doing this aside from

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it being totally intoxicating well because these old server drives behind

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me are loaded with data that is so sensitive that I am legally obligated to

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destroy them since we're at it anyway I thought I'd show you guys the atrack

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hydraulic press when this thing's done with your drive you will not be getting

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anything off of it but lonus you might say what about an

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SSD oh that's got to

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hurt turns out it can do those too but lonus you might say think of the turtles

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or your staff I need hard drive couldn't I just erase them and sell them

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maybe at a nice discount the answer is yes but also more complicated than you

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might expect there are a lot of ways to

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erase data and they're not all created equal kind of like my Segway to our

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purchase or subscription nice a quick search of eBay will reveal tons of

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listings for used magnetic hard drives so clearly plenty of folks out there are

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taking the wipe and resell approach but

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as you probably already know just hitting delete and emptying the recycle

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bin is not a secure method of erasing data and even a format doesn't

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necessarily make everything on a storage

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device unrecoverable just check out the results of of using test disc on an SD

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card full of deleted text files if you don't believe me so to prepare a drive

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for sale you need to do things right pun

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intended because the simplest method of doing that is to write zeros over the

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entire disc then you want to go back and

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read it to ensure that there's nothing but zeros to be found it's quite

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effective at preventing someone with a simple piece of free software from

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recovering all of your as recipes but

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what if you're a bank or hospital or the

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CIA well the answer there is it depends

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in the past Nells could conceivably use

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a technique called magnetic force microscopy to pull data off of a drive

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that had already been overwritten the

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idea behind it was that not every right operation on a particular bit of storage

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would be lined up with exact precision on the disc we're going to have a couple

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of papers in the description linked down below it's super interesting stuff and

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this potential attack Vector led to a series of data deletion standards that

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would call for between three and three dozen passes riding over the drive

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alternately filling it with zeros then ones then random characters or even

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predefined patterns with modern hard drives like these ones however the

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components and the tolerances have shrunk so much that the possibility of

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fragments being left behind that could be read is basically zero so new

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standards like nist 888 have come along

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which now say that four storage devices containing magnetic media a single

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overwrite pass with a fixed pattern such as binary zeros typically hinders

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recovery of data even if state-of-the-art laboratory equipment is

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used to attempt it so you're probably thinking if anyone with a computer could

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could do that at home why is this machine still

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necessary well the issue is doing it at

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scale you see with great capacity comes

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great right times so even drives that

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have built-in ATA secur race commands which should be anything made after

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about 2001 can take hours or even an

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overnight operation to fully clear and

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if you're that hypothetical bank or three-letter agency you could have

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hundreds or even thousands of drives to

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sanitize and dispose of nobody got time

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for that I mean even if you were willing to pay some Junior IT Tech to wipe

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drives all day every day buddy better have the appropriate clearance to handle

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it and even if they do something is eventually going to slip through the

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cracks like like that one time when my

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former employer didn't wipe their employee records yeah yeah good times I mean that

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was bad enough but hey look imagine if the data slipping through the cracks was

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I don't know a list of your nation's covert intelligence sources in North

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Korea or something that is where the

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Mobile Data Destruction system comes in it's fast enough to process Mount hard

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drive here that's another fun dad joke

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in about an hour and the first stage is

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the deusser and this bad boy is no joke

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we all know that hard drive storage is magnetic but what a lot of people don't

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realize is that this is perfectly safe you would need a

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much stronger magnet than anything you'd find on a screwdriver to do anything to

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a modern drive and there are a lot of different ways to skin this cat but this

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particular unit builds up an electrical charge in its capacitors then discharges

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the energy as one big highfrequency

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electromagnetic pulse so long as that pulse is stronger than the hard drive's

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coercivity that is its resistance to Magnetic change the pulse will randomize

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the polarity of all the little magnetic bits wiping out the data permanently and

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this is really important the drive doesn't need to be functional for the

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deaser to be effective you guys ready

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this bad boy puts out a field of about 10,000 gaus which is about double the

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coercivity of both conventional and shingled hard drives there it goes

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meaning that aside from the data itself being gone all the tracks on the

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platters will be destroyed and anecdotally we've heard that it can even

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shift around internal components or demagnetize the permanent magnets in the

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drive it's kind of the uh nuke it from

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orbit option it still looks perfectly normal but this drive is now completely

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unusable which raises a question why do

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we need the rest of this getup here well modern privacy and data protection

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laws require a more systematic approach and the mdds is more than just a dealer

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and a Crusher on a cart let me show you guys the workflow we start by scanning

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in the serial number of our drive then placing it here to take a before picture

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atrack is working on an AI module that will just read the serial number from

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the picture but that's not ready yet then it pops into the deusser we've

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already hit this drive once but doing it again isn't going tot it any more than

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it already is run right now it's

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charging up its capacitors then it's going to take all that power and I don't

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know if you'd call that an electromagnetic pop or thunk does anyone

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around here got a pacemaker no oh good probably should have checked that before

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we started but everyone's still standing I think we're all right atra says that

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we should only measure about five of this units 10,000 gaus directly above

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the unit where the shielding is weakest that could potentially impact older

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pacemakers but that's within the occupational safety limits for short

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exposure so should be fine after the

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thud we wait for the Raspberry Pi controller to pop up once this readout

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says success the data is gone but this next step is still important for a few

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reasons one it gives us an obvious

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visual indicator that uh this thing ain't going to work no more two the more

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extreme data protection standards do still call for physical construction and

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number three this is the most important it's super fun to watch oh you doing

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okay buddy it didn't go it's not it's in there the right way

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I don't want to not follow the instructions did I put it upside down or

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something matter destruction fail open door oh this is a helium drive this is a

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sealed drive we spoke with at Rack about the difficulty that we had crushing

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these beefier unibody hard drives and it turns out the crusher in our cart was

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modified if IED to run on 110v Power and as a result doesn't have quite the same

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oomph of the production units at Rack picked up a few of these drives to

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double check and their production unit made short work of them once the drive

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is crushed we shake any loose bits out into the drawer down here throw it back

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under the camera for an after picture and all of that gets logged to atra's

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redundant Cloud servers and then you can print off a certificate of Destruction

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for your local records kind of wonder what else we could crush in this thing

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that would make a great Floatplane exclusive maybe uh yeah we'll have the social team

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do that lg. g/f flat plane coming soon that aside I can practically hear you

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guys saying L is what about ssds don't worry we're going to get to that but

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first we need to at least mention new magnetic hard drive Technologies like

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heat assisted magnetic recording or hammer in a nutshell these Cutting Edge

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drives achieve much greater storage density by using platter materials with

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much higher coercivity as you can imagine from when we were talking about

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about the deusser this helps to prevent accidental flips to nearby bits when

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they're exposed to the right head but it presents some other challenges like well

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how do you intentionally write to the bit you're actually targeting it's super

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cool in less than a nond they heat the

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target bit up with a laser to around 450° C which reduces the coercivity then

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they it and rapidly cool it back down to

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lock in the data at this time we're not aware of a deusser that is capable of

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clearing a hammer drive yet but we're told that they are in the works so for

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now a drive Shredder might be your best bet for Hammer at Rack told us they're

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working on a shredder attachment for this unit and if you guys are into this stuff I would love to get our hands on

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it and show it to you now let's finally talk about ssds and all your other

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non-magnetic storage the deuser isn't

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going to do Jack squat to these either and overriding them might not be Totally

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Secure either if the drive uses automatic wear leveling which pretty

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much any modern consumer SSD would as

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with hammer drives then that leaves you with secure Ras which at least is

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refreshingly quick on an SSD and if properly implemented should be good

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enough for anyone to resell the drive without worrying about recovery but in

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cases where you have to be 100% sure that nothing's getting through the cracks our Crusher has a cool little

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accessory that not only crushes the drives but also ensures damage to each

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and every memory chip on the board that's scary looking let's give it

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a try all we got to do is pull out the hard drive

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attachments okay put this bad boy in here H yeah

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something like that seems

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legit you want to see a 2 and 1/2 in or an m.2 yes all right right well let's

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start with one of the I mean not the heck it could probably do both here we

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go sayara buddy

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oh oh there we go did we get all the chips let's see let's see oh wow I mean

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the whole board came in half that's probably a good sign Nan chip

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dead nand chip in half other more

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different Nan chip that's not quite half but that's definitely some fraction the

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controller survived but there's no data on there last n chip definitely dead now

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how about this boy oh okay

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well there's one n chip I think it's

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dead obviously we are talking thousands of dollars in the hardware alone not to

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mention the software and integration work around this whole process and the

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Redundant servers around the world keeping your logs safe for years to come

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but the way that at Rack envisions things these carts are going to just

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live in the data center they're safe to use in either the hot or cold aisle and

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with an all-inclusive leasing cost of less than $1,000 a month they should

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quickly pay for themselves in time saved

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I personally would love to see them have an attachment maybe I don't know down

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here or something where you can load in drives for security racing that maybe

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could then be tested and sold if they still work I mean if it's bad obviously

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just Crush those ones but I can also understand that regulations is

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regulations at least until we can change them

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and I do get it even if I don't like it

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oh there's one more thing we should touch on let's talk about seds or self-

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encrypting drives these have a data encryption key that set at the factory

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and they automatically encrypt or decrypt data that is being written to or

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read from the drive the whole thing is transparent to the user apart from

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entering their password at boot the cool trick with these is that without the the

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key the data on the drive is essentially just random characters so all you need

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to do to erase that drive permanently is

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to overwrite the data encryption key this is called a cryptographic erase and

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is effectively instantaneous making it perhaps the most time effective method

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of Data Destruction while still allowing reuse of the drive many ssds have self-

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encryption features like these already but don't enable them by default so you

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can check the security settings in your PC BIOS or do a little bit of Googling

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to figure out how to get started on your platform software-based encryption Works

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similarly and is also possible but usually comes with some kind of

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performance hit so we'll have a couple guides linked down below it's important

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to remember in all of this that the schemes we're talking about though are

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for protecting the data at rest on the drive or once it's dead this is not

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magically protecting that picture of your lunch that you're uploading to the

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gram and while self- encrypting discs and full dis encryption might be the

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best way forward there's still going to be a place for setups like this for a

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long time because reliable trackable Data Destruction is critical for many

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