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Honestly, in this day and age and with some of the powers the government has been getting in projects like Stellar Wind, a bit of information impermanence for personal data might not be such a bad thing.

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Exactly. Frankly, I would like to read about anti-forensic techniques.

Given the speed of a SSD, how long does it take to format it? Must be pretty fast

Intel SSDs encrypt the contents of the flash with an AES key stored elsewhere. Once the key is overwritten, the original contents of the SSD are no longer accessible.

I'm not sure whether other SSD implementations do the same thing.

That's an interesting way of doing things, provided that there are no hidden back doors.

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