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Title: Secure Erasing Isn’t That Secure with SSDs
Post by: HCK on February 22, 2011, 03:00:27 pm
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/