Don't forget that sensitive data is encrypted. The only thing harder than breaking bitlocker on a hard drive is breaking bitlocker on a random 0.5% chunk of hard drive unaligned with the r/w tracks.
Bullshit is too weak a word.
Bullshit is too weak a word.
My employer just shredded somewhat new-ish enterprise grade SSD worth a few $M. It hurt to watch :(
There's an ATA command to protect the encryption key with a password (and you'll be asked on boot for the password), but if the password isn't set, there's still an encryption key. Just make that irretrievable and the information is theoretically irretrievable.
But yeah, funny how superstitions still control the world and people still say "The HDD needs to be shredded so we're absolutely sure!"
* someone didn't prep and use the drives before using OS level encryption
* someone didn't ignore swap space, eg config mistake
* some process was supposed to set up / a person set up, but didn't
Are you going to audit all those drives? It's literally cheaper to just destroy them, far far cheaper.
Try the English slang word for bullshit, bollocks.
Or that if we wish to keep it PG: deceptive nonsense.