ATA_POLL_THERMITE_RELEASED // always returns 0. Assume 1 if timeout
elchananHaas · 6h ago
Flash chips, unlike hard drives, are highly reliant on their controllers. If you hit it with a hammer the data is unrecoverable. No need for a voltage zap.
MarkusWandel · 8h ago
If smartphones can wipe themselves irrecoverably on factory reset by simply throwing away the storage encryption key, why not do the same thing and avoid all the trouble? Surely erasing 512 bits or so, irrecoverably, can be done quickly.
mrheosuper · 2h ago
What if Quantum computer is actually possible ?
beeflet · 8h ago
seems unnecessary with encryption
dafelst · 7h ago
You can be compelled to give up encryption passphrases, either through legal process or by force. If that data is irrecovably and provably erased, that is no longer an avenue for access.
beeflet · 7h ago
put part of the symmetric encryption key in volatile memory
SketchySeaBeast · 8h ago
You know, sometimes security through obscurity works. If you can't find all the pieces you certainly aren't going to retrieve their data.
ATA_POLL_THERMITE_RELEASED // always returns 0. Assume 1 if timeout