Allegedly, on or about 26 January 2019, sixpack13 sent:
maybe "hdparm security erase" is an option (don't know
if disk
content is afterwards still recoverable)
Of course you could leave a drive filled with non-private files, just
to lead them down the garden path. ;-)
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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
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