alt Hacker NewsSeems like a horrible invasion of privacy for very little benefit.
The logs are stored on an SSD , which is literally the only part you need to replace when donating or reselling a PC. Any enterprise company should have a policy ensuring SSD destruction.
Most laptops will last a long time assuming they aren't abused. I guess the SSD wears out, but that's a 50$ part.
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> Any enterprise company should have a policy ensuring SSD destruction.
Counterpoint: enterprises shouldn't be incentivized to produce physical waste containing toxic components that are virtually only available from supply chains that abuse human rights and cause mass ecological devastation.
this idea that we should just shred perfectly working components because an asshole in a suit doesn't understand FDE (or just... wiping the drive) is bad for everybody in the log run.
> Any enterprise company should have a policy ensuring SSD destruction.
Why? Drives should already be encrypted, at which point you just lose the key and it's unrecoverable.