similar to: OT: hardware: sanitizing a dead SSD?

James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. > > Around

Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD?

On Wed, 9 May 2018, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Federal contractor here, too. (I'm the OP). For disks that work, shred or > DBAN is what we use. For dead disks, we do the paperwork, and get them > deGaussed. SSD's are a brand new issue. We haven't had to deal with them > yet, but it's surely coming, so we might as well figure it out now. Does anyone use hdparm's

Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking as private citizen. Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet can't know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. Around here, I give the disks to my local computer support who in turn

> Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it >> yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a >> dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do

On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a > dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD? > SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple sectors many times to

On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: > > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: > > > > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it > > > yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a

On 9 May 2018 at 07:18, Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-09 at 13:00 +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: >> > Am 08.05.2018 um 21:46 schrieb Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>: >> > >> > On 8 May 2018 at 15:34, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> > > Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We

On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 15:46 -0400, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > SSD disks must be shredded as the data has been written over multiple > sectors many times to 'even the writes'. This allows for even a 'dead' > disk to be disassembled with 'off-the-shelf' equipment to extract > items from the dead places. Depending on the data involved, there may > be

On Thu, May 10, 2018 12:00, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > On the other hand... static, and unchanging, right, and how many > minutes of Amazon S3 will it take to break the encryption? None. If it is NSA certified there will be a backdoor. -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor

On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > >>> Good evening from Singapore! > >>> > >>> The foremost question which I want to ask

Hello, On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > Good evening from Singapore! > > > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name

Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good evening from Singapore! > > The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal > (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? > > I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name > used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual > name used) had *promised* our

On 02/04/18 15:09, wwp wrote: > Hello, > > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2018 10:01:56 -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: >>> Good evening from Singapore! >>> >>> The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal >>> (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? >>>

DBAN is obsolete. NIST 800-88 for some time now says to use secure erase or enhanced security erase or crypto erase if supported. Other options do not erase data in remapped sectors. Chris Murphy

Good evening from Singapore! The foremost question which I want to ask is, what is the universal (world wide) understanding behind degaussing hard drives? I work for No Secrets Agency (NSA) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used). My sales manager Edward Joseph Snowden (fictitious individual name used) had *promised* our customer Leave Me in the Lurch (S) Pte Ltd (fictitious company name used)

John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/31/2017 8:04 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID >> has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred >> /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this >> reasonable for it to be taking this long...? > > not at all

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