The way I see it, this depends on one's use case. There certainly are cases where it is important to be able to irrevocably destroy all data in an instant. But there are also use cases where one is only interested in making sure that the average person couldn’t access one’s data if one lost one’s laptop/external drive.
I still think that anyone with the second use case could benefit from more documentation as I suggested, but I get the feeling this opinion is in the distinct minority here. So — thanks to everyone for the answers, I’m signing off this question now. Take care and stay secure, Nathan >Nathan Carruth writes: >> permanently and irrevocably destroy all data on your entire disk”. > >This is a feature. More so, it's the very point in an encrypted >filesystem. If you haven't planned for this failure scenario then >what are you doing using a device which *by design* can irrevocably >trash its contents in an instant? > >Matthew
