I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?
Most likely not. Did you have anything on it that you would even be concerned about someone else finding? Is anyone even likely to be curious enough to look?
Well, can only speak for me, but first thing I do.
I mean, you can never know which administrative scandal you might uncover…
I stop the moment I find private stuff, though.
Had that three or four times already, the only case I was considering doing something about it was a completely unsecured and unerased phone still containing a bunch of business emails that clearly were sensitive or even confidential stuff.
I just told the seller how he screwed up here, instead of making a bigger fuss out of it.
Sure, but are you pulling out forensic analysis tools, or just checking what didn’t even get erased in the first place?
The devices in question all were fat formatted, for which it is quite easy to reconstruct most of the “deleted” content using readily available simple tools (which I did).
But that was some time in the past, nowadays most systems use some kind of base encryption, making it less likely to easily find something.
The phone, on the other hand, was just not doing a factory reset before selling it, but only deleting files (and missing stuff, like some mail folders) and not having a password-protection at all… 😬