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IT worker's drill fails to destroy SSD in viral mishap (www.techspot.com)
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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

You also cant just hit one spot on the SSD. You need to destroy every single storage chip on there, because if you dont, the surviving chips can just be desoldered and read out manually.