On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 01:03:23PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote: > > > > > On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote: > > [...] > > > Be sure to do a secure erase before you put the SSD's into service: > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Erase#Secure_erase > > > > Why do you recommend that? Are you assuming the SSDs songbird got are used, or do you recommend that even for new SSDs -- if so, why? > > >From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/malware-found-on-new-hard-drives/>: > > ... Practice "safe sectors" and scan, or preferably wipe, all drives > before bringing them into the ecosystem. Dont assume that a drive is > going to be blank and malware free. Trust no one. Same goes for USB > flash drives - you never know what's been installed on them. I have a hard time imagining how a malware on a disk can do anything once you've put new file systems on it. Of course, if you mount their file systems unchanged... Cheers -- t
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