[ale] Data not safe on ssds

[Geoffrey Myers]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> The title of your email doesn't quite match what the link is discussing.
> 
> It does not say data isn't safe.
> 
> It says securely removing data can't be done using the methods designed
> for non-SSD drives but the paper presented talks about methods for doing
> this and of course people commenting on it all noted that encryption is
> a good way to ameliorate the concern.   Also the article talks about
> data on a single drive - if one is running RAID levels other than
> mirroring then someone would have to get all of a RAID set to be able to
> extract a lot of meaningful data.   My read of the article didn't lead
> me to any larger concern for SSDs than I have for mechanical drives.

My bad, I copied/pasted the title of the article to the subject.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey Myers
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:16 AM
> To: ALE run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Data not safe on ssds
> 
> Interesting article:
> 
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1911217/Confidential-Data-No
> t-Safe-On-Solid-State-Disks
> 
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