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Your CD and DVD Collection Is Slowly Destroying Itself

Of course, this was a bit of a trick, since the CD would still audibly skip, but these discs were marketed as being tough and ...

Google transitions to encryption-based media sanitisation after decades of disk erasure

Google will now use cryptographic erasure to delete data. This method destroys encryption keys, making data unreadable. This new approach is more sustainable than physically destroying storage drives.