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kscherer
Which way is up?
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
 
2021-06-10, 18:39

I get where you're coming from. However, there are plenty of people out there that haven't a clue how to get rid of their stuff (this new feature will fix that). FWIW, we've been doing this for a long time and have never had a data breach. We make our living off of our customer's trust. Also, it's a different world now with Apple's use of SSD's. It's not like old hard drives that just nuked the directory but left the data laying around. SSDs work much differently.

First, the data is encrypted. Without the password, you get nothing.

Second, the way that Apple formats SSDs, when the drive is erased everything is gone and cannot be accessed after the fact. In fact, there is no "write zeroes" option in modern Disk Utility with an SSD installed, because there are no one's and zeroes left to snoop through. At all!

Third, with the existence of the T2 chip (and whatever its younger brother in the M1 is called) it is quite difficult to just reset passwords, boot from an external, or any other sleuthing. We deal with this on a regular basis, and it's getting progressively harder to break into a Mac to snoop around, even for legitimate reasons. You forget how to get into your own Mac, and your stuff is gone*!

Bonus, with "Erase all content and settings", the private key is destroyed and you'll get nothing off the drive.

* With proof of purchase, Apple might help you.

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