On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 8:28 PM Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > > Jude DaShiell (12020-06-09): > > High security operations do this routinely. They properly don't trust > > parts are as labeled from manufacturers especially manufacturers that > > send any of their stuff or get any of their stuff from China. > > There is no trust to have. The previous contents would be overwritten on > the first actual write of a file. > > And if the filesystem reads a sector that has never been written, that's > a serious bug in the operating system.
Too bad if you end up in a routine police investigation and they find child pornography when scanning the disks for deleted files. "Must have been the previous owner" is a valid defense, but I'd rather not end up having to use it.
