[ale] Data not safe on ssds

[Greg Freemyer]

I'm looking at the list of tools they used on the chart and I don't
see thermite, hammer, car, etc.   What's up with that?

Given how bad the ones they tested did, I really do think they should
have included an array of physical solutions.

ie. How does running the thumb drive over it with a car work?  What
about a 12-ounce hammer? etc.?

fyi: I got one in for recovery last year that appeared to have been
put in a microwave.  Assuming that's what happened, it worked really
well.  We de-soldered the chips to try and directly access the NAND
chips.  Nada.  Not that I expected it to work, but we really wanted to
know more about that thumb drive.


Greg

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Interesting article:
>
> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/02/17/1911217/Confidential-Data-Not-Safe-On-Solid-State-Disks
>
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