[Freedombox-discuss] Roadmap / Wishlists

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 04/18/2011 11:08 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
> The short answer is that it doesn't work at all on flash drives.
> Researchers tried it, disassembled the drives, and found their
> 'erased' data sitting right there in the flash chips.

Could you provide a link to this study?  I believe some SSD devices do
offer the ATA Secure Erase command these days.  It would be good to have
a pointer to a concrete demonstration that this is unreliable, if that's
the case.

Regards,

	--dkg

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