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tomberttoday at 5:47 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't think this bothers me.

The only reason that I do the disk encryption is so that I don't have to worry about people going through my laptop to steal tax documents and/or credit card stuff when I sell the laptop. I of course also wipe the laptop too, but I figure that if the data is encrypted at the drive level then there's very little risk of anyone being able to use some kind of forensics tool and recover data.


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bluebarbettoday at 7:26 PM

Assuming the encryption key is strong, the wiping is theoretically redundant.

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