--On Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:35:26 AM -0400 "James B. Byrne" <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote: > I have a question about SSD respecting security. [...] > I have come to the rather > unsettling conclusion that it is effectively impossible to 'sanitize' > these things short of complete and utter physical destruction, preferably > by incineration. I would concur with that assessment. Similar to what others have mentioned, with spinning platters I use either DBAN for relatively insensitive disks and physical destruction for sensitive stuff (preferably after DBAN, if it is still a working disk). When it comes to SSD and other memory-based technologies, physical destruction only. A couple of weeks ago I was buying some consumer-grade disks for a particular project. The sales guy was of course trying to up-sell me on their in-store replacement plan. I tried to explain to him that even if I thought such plans were actually worth something, it would be pointless because I *never* RMA a hard drive. I think he was dense; he didn't seem to grasp the concept. Devin