If it makes my laptop useless to be stolen and protects my personal information and finances I'd choose them being sent to the landfill over second hand market.

None of this is an issue if its actually real second hand.

Totally bro. Bring on the e-waste, as long as I am good who cares?

formerly_proven

iDevices are actually excellent at e-waste reduction precisely because of their "erase everything" feature, which gives owners a very quick and assured way to ensure the devices are actually wiped and reduces incentives to shredding devices or parts of them.

hgsgm

The article is about the opposite, and how can you trust that the "erase everything" works? You can't verify it without destroying the device, since the storage is not removable.

dijit

The article is saying that people don't unlock their devices before recycling them.

This could be true, but as I mentioned in another comment, as soon as it's removed from the original users iCloud account that lock will be removed.

> how can you trust that the "erase everything" works?

You can't remove it, but as long as nobody else can use the device to recover data then it's fine.

FWIW it's actually pretty easy with SATA SSD's to set a device key, which then encrypts everything on the drive at full speed: https://github.com/Drive-Trust-Alliance/sedutil

The drives are actually already doing this, it's just that the key is set to 0's.

I can imagine that, given the drive is accessed via T2, that Apples NANDS are being accessed the same way, in which case scrambling the key is enough to make it unrecoverable permanently.