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A Factory Reset Does Not Always Erase a Phone
Whether a reset removes anything depends on one thing most people never check: whether the handset was encrypted in the first place.
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NIST SP 800-88: What Clear, Purge and Destroy Actually Mean
Three words that get used interchangeably in sales material and mean three different things in the document everybody cites.
More Passes Do Not Mean More Security
The three-pass and thirty-five-pass methods still sold as premium options solve a problem that stopped existing with the drives they were designed for.
Erasing an SSD: Why Overwriting Is the Wrong Tool
Wear levelling means the drive, not your software, decides which physical cells a write lands on — and that breaks the assumption every overwrite method depends on.
What Belongs on a Data Erasure Certificate
A letter on headed paper saying forty assets were destroyed answers nothing about asset seventeen. Here is what a document has to carry to be worth filing.
DPDP, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI-DSS: What Each One Asks for at Disposal
None of these regulations names a wipe method. All four ask for the same thing in different words, and it is not the method.
Something here you want to argue with
These are positions rather than press releases. If your policy says otherwise, say so — it is a better conversation than a quote request.
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