> With new apple machines there is no possibility of this.

It isn't necessary to destroy the physical media anymore, so that reduction in e-waste is fine with me. Just properly erase the device by clicking the button in settings.

But security is about more than what you do at the end of a machine’s ownership, it’s all the things you have to consider while the machine is out in the world with very sensitive information on it. And now those security departments have much less to worry about because of this security architecture in the chip.

As the sibling commenter points out, this should also result in less waste as those drives do not need to be destroyed if the device is properly unlocked.

And there is a perfectly secure way of having FileVault always on by default, and by rotating the keys, you are effectively "destroying" all the data on them anyway, with the bonus of not physically harming anything.

Unless, cryptography itself is broken... which would bring much wider-scale problems than destroying information on old drives anyway.