speeding up hard drive wipe

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 16:24:25 +0100
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> 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.

Even the one time "secure" Blackberry is using Ad-droid