8 Mar
2011
8 Mar
'11
10:48 a.m.
On 8 Mar 2011 at 0:49, Keith Monahan wrote:
Have you followed this slashdot comment train?
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/03/01/1740240/SSDs-Cause-Crisis-
For-Digital-Forensics
I read Graeme's comment towards the top, but it didn't clear it up too
much for me.
The other paper here
http://www.usenix.org/events/fast11/tech/full_papers/Wei.pdf
and summary info
http://news.techworld.com/storage/3262210/ssd-drives-difficult-to-wipe
-securely-researchers-find/
is another paper which posits almost the opposite position?
Curious as to what your take on this, if you have a position.
The Wei paper sure looks nice, but most of what it says is obvious.
They really lost me when they discussed trying to degauss a SSD.
Graeme and Wei are essentially saying the same thing, with Wei
pointing out that some early SSDs don't do what they're supposed to
do.
In a sense, it doesn't matter. The sharp crooks use time-proven
methods to cover their tracks. By the time SSDs offer the same
economies of scale as mechanical hard drives, I imagine that
obliterating deleted data for those who wish to will not be a
problem.
--Chuck