Myrient dies today, but Minerva-archive.org rises in its place! Thank you to all of those who helped to keep this 390 TB treasure trove alive 🫡
Myrient dies today, but Minerva-archive.org rises in its place! Thank you to all of those who helped to keep this 390 TB treasure trove alive 🫡
if its encrypted at rest, it doesn’t need it.
Until that encryption is broken. Maybe not today, or tomorrow, or next week, or next month.
But if the business is paying the money to have the disks shredded, then there’s probably a good reason to do so. I wouldn’t want to find out that my bank sold their old (server) drives to the public.
The problem is is that I severely doubt that there’s anything of value on it. Have you any idea how many disks are full of banal static?
for me and you, that is probably enough.
but you always need to know who or what is a potential threat to you. in the end it is just about making it enough of a pain for whoever might be interested in your data, so it is not worthwhile to them. having to break out forensic tools - just to get encrypted data, is probably painful enough for most. make them play puzzles with metal and glass shards will for sure open some wounds to pour salt on.
cremating disks is a thing for hacker collectives. termite is an extremely interesting thing to observe. but i am pretty sure there are more practical reasons, why people do that.