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I've been a DO customer for about a year and some, this is news to me. So no, I wouldn't say it's public knowledge.

That said, I haven't really destroyed many of my VMs.

http://i.imgur.com/Aliyewf.png

I suppose when I made that comment I was expecting everybody to be like me; eager to flip switches to see what they do.

I would expect that option to do something along the lines of scrubbing the data on the hardware level so that someone who physically examined the disk wouldn't be able to access my data. That's because I'd expect my data to be at least logically wiped in the first place.

Same here

That does not actually state anything that indicates they will just hand over all of your data to the next random stranger.

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