{"id":11083,"date":"2020-04-07T12:41:15","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=11083"},"modified":"2020-04-07T12:41:15","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:41:15","slug":"new-comment-on-reddit-893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=11083","title":{"rendered":"New comment on reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Encrypting the drive ensures, presuming the key is otherwise lost, that any data recovery methods which might exist could only get an [apparent] stream of random bits<\/p>\n<p>That said &#8230; there&#39;s really no <em>legitimate<\/em> reason to do this, because doing <\/p>\n<pre><code>dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/dev\/&lt;dev-in-question&gt; <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>is <strong><em>pretty damn good<\/em><\/strong>! (on UNIX\/macOS\/Linux\/*BSD)<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#39;re <em>really<\/em> worried, run<\/p>\n<pre><code>dd if=\/dev\/urandom of=\/dev\/&lt;dev-in-question&gt; <\/code><\/pre>\n<p>after you&#39;ve zeroed it (or before &#8211; either is fine)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re on Windows, it&#39;s not <em>quite<\/em> as simple &#8211; so encrypting <em>then<\/em> formatting is good enough (for anyone but a nationstate &#8211; and if <em>they&#39;re<\/em> your threat model, encrypt, format, encrypt, format (with a different filesystem))<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April 07, 2020 at 08:38AM<br \/>\nvia reddit https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/cybersecurity\/comments\/fwje8u\/encrypt_before_erasing\/fmom3ed?utm_source=ifttt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Encrypting the drive ensures, presuming the key is otherwise lost, that any data recovery methods which might exist could only get an [apparent] stream of random bits That said &#8230; there&#39;s really no legitimate reason to do this, because doing dd if=\/dev\/zero of=\/dev\/&lt;dev-in-question&gt; is pretty damn good! (on UNIX\/macOS\/Linux\/*BSD) And if you&#39;re really worried, run &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=11083\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New comment on reddit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[972],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-reddit"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11084,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11083\/revisions\/11084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11083"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=11083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}