Secure Erasing Isn’t That Secure with SSDs
In a paper to be presented at this week’s Usenix FAST 11 conference in California, a groupe of security researches from the University of California, San Diego, have found that securely erasing SSDs (solid-state drives) is not efficient, and may leave large amounts of data on the drives, which is then accessible via file recovery [...]
http://blog.intego.com/2011/02/22/secure-erasing-isnt-that-secure-with-ssds/