Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks

An anonymous reader writes "I always thought that the SSD was a questionable place to store private data. These researchers at UCSD's Non-Volatile Systems Laboratory have torn apart SSDs and have found remnant data even after running several open source and commerical secure erase tools. They've also proposed some changes to SSDs that would make them more secure. Makes you think twice about storing data on SSDs — once you put it on, getting it off isn't so easy."

Comments

Re:How about

[initdeep]

STOP USING LOGIC ON /.

I think I'm safe

[lxw56]

I challenge anyone to find my MicroSD card. I've conducted extensive security audits to verify that no attacker, even one with inside information, can gain electronic or physical access to the disc.

Re:I think I'm safe

[RapmasterT]

I challenge anyone to find my MicroSD card. I've conducted extensive security audits to verify that no attacker, even one with inside information, can gain electronic or physical access to the disc.

Translation: "I lost the tiny little bastard and can't fucking find it!"

Re:Nuke it from orbit

[Calydor]

This is when you tell us he re-assembled it, loaded up some Linux Drive Recovery program and pulled all the data to safety, right?