I am giving away a shitty 128GB SSD, which was used with LUKS 2 for most of it’s lifetime. As far as I know, it’s good practice to secure-erase it, but I’m too lazy to reinstall the OS on it (I already did it once). Is it really needed?

  • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    4 hours ago

    Is anyone even likely to be curious enough to look?

    Well, can only speak for me, but first thing I do.
    I mean, you can never know which administrative scandal you might uncover…
    I stop the moment I find private stuff, though.
    Had that three or four times already, the only case I was considering doing something about it was a completely unsecured and unerased phone still containing a bunch of business emails that clearly were sensitive or even confidential stuff.
    I just told the seller how he screwed up here, instead of making a bigger fuss out of it.