Well, the storage device should handle that then. And modern NVMEs do.
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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 months agoIf every time an OS had to delete something it had to fill the space with zeros or garbage data multiple times just to make extra sure it's gone, we'd all be trashing our flash chips very fast, and performance would be heavily degraded. There really isn't a way around this.
The solution to keep private files private is to put them into an encrypted container of some sort where you control the keys.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
Deletion commands are unfortunately not very reliable on many SSDs
5too@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Step away from hardware constraints for a moment, and consider the OS:
If the OS says a file is deleted, under no circumstances should the OS be able to recover it. And yet, it apparently was. Thus, the concerns about data safety in an environment where the OS is unreliable.