Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:01:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Secure erase on an SSD MMA Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system References: <6KqdnbEF3eda13HInZ2dnUU7-UmdnZ2d@giganews.com> <55efa178$0$25672$2c56edd9@usenetrocket.com> <080920152313250730%nospam@nospam.invalid> From: Alan Browne Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:01:34 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <080920152313250730%nospam@nospam.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0O2dnVYI1fhT1G3InZ2dnUU7-dmdnZ2d@giganews.com> Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-I32SWx5R0ibpVQnEgTD4gw8M8GNMQ5snNSU1E7MmDHqeWgGf6i0nq1fDdlztIKxu/84XplZr7OBbTwH!ZieDTjHt2yNn16Z7gXtsv5jBjtf9xaE541jmv0FIhemzE8FIXilj1ZtbG9uHLGV/rtjmzqNToQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1966 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:79705 On 2015-09-08 23:13, nospam wrote: > In article <55efa178$0$25672$2c56edd9@usenetrocket.com>, John Albert > 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.