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ShredOS - A small Linux distribution to erase your traces (github.com)

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ShredOS is a USB bootable (BIOS or UEFI) small linux distribution with the sole purpose of securely erasing the entire contents of your disks using the program nwipe.

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[–] x00z 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

GDPR laws are a big part of it. It's illegal to not protect the privacy of your customers. We even shipped the erased disks to a specialized company.

But also, the only way for this whole "just get them a new disk" to be profitable is if you resell the old disks as new disks. Which just sounds like evil capitalism to me.

[–] Deckweiss 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think we are arguing about the same scenario at all.

Here is an example of what I have in mind:

I work as a freelancer on a customers project.
In my computer I have an 128G NVME (15$) which is seperate from my OS where I put the data the customer entrusted me with and the project files
After the project, I take that NVME out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one (15$) for the next project
Some time after project completion, I can either trash the drives or send them in bulk to some data erasure service, or leave them on my shelf for ever.

As opposed to

After the project, I take that NVME-1 out, put it in a box on a shelf and buy a new one for the next project (NVME-2)
for the project after that, I again take out NVME-2 and put it on a sheld, I get NVME-1 from my shelf, put it in, run secure erase for multiple hours before I can start working on the next project.

My argument is, that the cost of the first process is negligible compared to the effort and hassle of the second process, for a freelancer that earns over 6x the cost of such drive per hour.

[–] x00z 3 points 2 days ago

My scenario was indeed handling the drives of customers themselves.

For your scenario I would just use some encrypted filesystem.