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None of these methods are reliable nor should they be trusted.

Every organization with good security hygiene requires physical destruction of SSDs. Full stop, end of negotiation, into the shredder it goes.

Not that it matters much, with the prices of SSDs skyrocketing people are moving back to mechanical disks.

Every organization with good security hygiene requires strong-password-protected disk encryption, because when your stuff is stolen from your Tesla at lunch time in broad daylight, no shredder policy will save you, full stop.

Who said the data wasn't encrypted?

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