speeding up hard drive wipe

[Chris Green]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:10:45PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:48:58 +0100
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>  
> > I absolutely agree.  I think people have a rather inflated idea of how
> > valuable their 'information' is! :-)  Even a disk full of deleted (by
> > the OS) files will take a huge amount of time to extract anything
> > useful from.
> > 
> If one is paranoid about data security take a look at the so called
> smart phone you use. Everything you do and say can be traced on an
> iPhone or Android.
> 
I don't use a smartphone, partly for the above reason.

> 
> > As another protection I don't save anything like passwords on my
> > system, so someone who (for example) extracts the whole of my Firefox
> > cache won't find anything useful there anyway.
> > 

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Chris Green