Encrypted filesystems

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Jerry Feldman wrote:

> On Monday 25 April 2005 1:45 pm, Kent Borg wrote:
> > That does bring up another reason for encrypting data: To maybe make
> > it possible to do warranty returns on dead disks that were used to
> > store sensitive data.
> There should be a certain amount of trust involved. A vendor _SHOULD_ either 
> destroy the platters or bulk erase them. I would doubt that a vendor would 
> take the time to extract the data as data recovery is labor intensive. 

A *vendor* might not, bit an *employee of that vendor* might.  It may not 
be his job, and it may even be specifically prohibited, but that doesn't 
mean someone won't be sufficiently bored and skilled.

And the original case was talking about a data recovery house, not a hard 
drive return.  If I were returning a hard drive that I had sensitive data 
on it, I would certainly degauss it.


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