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I am the admin of several Google accounts. I have disabled the account deletion feature for the Google accounts I manage. However, I am wondering if the accounts are simply unable to be deleted at all, or if they are just unable to be dele… Continue reading Could a Google account be lost without the user deleting it? [migrated]
I have a 4TB mechanical hard drive that was encrypted before I ever wrote any file on it. I used a 25 character password with symbols.
Before I sold it, I unmounted the disk while it was still encrypted, then I formatted it to a new unencr… Continue reading Erased encrypted HDD, then secure erased 10% of it before selling it – is it safe?
I have some extremely sensitive data on a computer, hard drive, and on a private server. I do not care about cost or method, as I have a lot of funds (though not unlimited) and I do not want to go through a third party data sanatization co… Continue reading How can you securely destroy data permanently and completely? [duplicate]
I have several faulty USB drives and I like to return these to the vendor to get my money back – but without the vendor being able to access any data which might be still on the drives
Problem is, the USB drives won’t allow me to access th… Continue reading How to wipe out data on a USB drive that is faulty, so that data can’t be recovered?
How can I securely delete selected files so they can’t be recovered, but without the full format of the external HDD? Is this even possible?
I’m using Mac OS.
Continue reading How to prevent the recovery of deleted files without a full format of external HDD?
I was watching this DefCon talking about Solid State Drives (SSDs) destroying forensic and data recovery jobs. It was interesting to note, that the speaker did acknowledge that it is unknown how long deleted files will remain recoverable f… Continue reading Can ransomware impact SSD drives?
I have to give my computer back to my boss.
I want to delete all the data from my SSD. I found "ThinkShield secure wipe" which is implemented in the BIOS apparently.
It gives me two options:
ATA Secure Erase method or ATA Cryptog… Continue reading ThinkShield secure wipe – SSD does it forbid data recovering?
When deleting a user on a Linux system, if you lock their password and kill all their processes, a logged in user disconnects and can’t log in with his password anymore.
But if they still have an authorized SSH key, they will be able to re… Continue reading What ways other than password and authorized SSH key are there to log in to a Linux system?
According to android documentation the FBE system has two different levels. Credential Encrypted (CE) storage and Device Encrypted (DE) storage.
Does a factory reset of an FBE phone reset the keys of both storages?
If I run a full disk en… Continue reading Android FBE securely wipe all data
Recently, I was subject to being hacked. I tried to wipe Windows and delete the old Windows files after re-installing, but I feel a rootkit was installed and hidden from Norton scans. I randomly received a Google sign-in attempt from my PC… Continue reading What steps should I take to format my SSD to ensure that malware is removed? [migrated]