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Re: Best GPG practices before sending computer to maintenance.



On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote:

> If you are just worried about GPG, then removing .gnupg should be all you need
> to do.

Deleting files does not remove the data from the block device, it only
removes metadata.

Even overwriting the block device does not necessarily remove them from an SSD:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/erasing-ssds-security-is-an-issue/

I strongly suggest removing the SSD before sending the device.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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