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On 2015-10-01, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-10-01 01:25, Ant wrote:
>>>>>> Yep. They better let us watch them test! :P
>>>>
>>>>> They did it right in front of me just a couple months ago. Just tell
>>>>> them you want to see it.
>>>>
>>>> Cool. Definitely NO to taking the HDD.
>>
>>> Why? If you don't want Apple to have the data, simply run Disk Utility and
>>> erase the drive. You can even insist on doing it right there at the store
>>> before you hand it over to them. It's your (his) computer, after all.
>>
>> Doing secured erase takes hours though.
>
> When re-purposing a drive, for the "buyer" it's not necessary.  For the 
> "seller", well, that's up to him.
>
> Best practice now is to always (from the day a disk is newly formatted) 
> set it up under Apple's Filevault.  At the end of the disks life - or 
> when re-purposing it - is to simply delete it from the keychain and 
> destroy the recovery key.  If re-purposing it, then a new Filevault 
> round can be started after re-formatting the drive.  The prior data is 
> completely unrecoverable - including any "bad blocks" assigned in the 
> interim.

I believe he said he already turned on FileVault, which means the
contents of the drive are encrypted. So I really don't get his hesitance
to simply erase the volume and hand it over. Apple's not interested in
spending the considerable time and money it would take to get the data
off a failing hard drive.

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