On Sat, 2019-01-26 at 20:01 +0000, Jonathan Dieter wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-01-25 at 20:24 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > On 1/25/19 6:45 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> > > Is there a quicker way to protect my data when I give the drives away, 
> > > other than smashing the drives to bits?
> > 
> > The quickest would be to encrypt the drives from the beginning. When you 
> > want to discard the drives, you just need to wipe the LUKS header.  With 
> > the key wiped out, the rest of the drive is just random bits.
> 
> This, 100 times over!

Undoubtedly, *if* the drive was previously encrypted. Nothing the OP
has says indicates this is the case, and encrypting it now is not going
to be faster than trashing it.

poc
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