Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA

Subject	Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
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From	Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date	2015-09-09 11:01 -0400
Message-ID	<0O2dnVYI1fhT1G3InZ2dnUU7-dmdnZ2d@giganews.com> (permalink)

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On 2015-09-08 23:13, nospam wrote:
> In article <55efa178$0$25672$2c56edd9@usenetrocket.com>, John Albert
> <j.albert@snet.net> wrote:
>
>> Now that SSD's have been around a while, I'm surprised that no one
>> (company or independent developer) has released a utility app that is
>> specifically designed to manipulate SSD's -- do a secure erase, etc.
>
> there are, but it's *much* easier using encryption, where it can be
> securely erased in an instant by discarding the key.

Key management, passwords and rubber hose decryption are the weak point 
in that scheme.  It is part of my general life cycle management for 
disks now, but it is not infallible.

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Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 10:16 -0400
  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-06 10:57 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 11:16 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-06 12:32 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-06 18:30 -0600
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 09:56 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 11:30 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:02 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:45 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:04 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-08 00:54 -0400
              Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 01:00 -0400
  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-06 09:36 -0600
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 11:55 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:42 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:00 -0400
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    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 13:41 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:04 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:10 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-07 14:12 -0400
            Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-07 14:15 -0400
              Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-08 01:08 -0400
  Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2015-09-08 23:05 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-08 23:13 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 11:01 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 11:17 -0400
    Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 00:38 -0400
      Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 11:04 -0400
        Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 11:41 -0400
          Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 12:54 -0400

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