<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-html-editor-font-wrapper="true" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"><p>Also there is this tool that may be useful:</p><p><a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.extirpater/">https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.extirpater/</a><br><br>Mat<br><br>November 19, 2023 12:47 PM, "Mick Fuzz" <<a target="_blank" tabindex="-1" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:mickfuzz23@gmail.com?to=%22Mick%20Fuzz%22%20<mickfuzz23@gmail.com>">mickfuzz23@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p> <blockquote><div><div><p>So Thanks for the info so far,</p><p>Some of it is related to phones :) So that's good.</p><p>I'm adding them here <a rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" tabindex="-1" href="https://pad.riseup.net/p/phonesinit">https://pad.riseup.net/p/phonesinit</a></p><p>I should have added in text the context that the attached flyer suggested. We are asking people to donate phones to the Makery workshop so we can rehome them.</p><p>> If the drive is already encrypted as is the default now on most modern phone there is no need to use shredding to wiping tool, just losing the private key will work, so in most case just a factory reset. Remember to delink accounts before do this.</p><p>I'm interested to know why delinking accounts is important here.</p><p>Here's notes I have so far.</p><div aria-live="assertive"><span><b>T</b></span><span><b>ips on Wiping Phone’s data securely</b></span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span><b>Discussion / General points. </b></span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>First check is the phone encrypted or not</span></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>If yes, then a factory reset is enough to securely remove users data. </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>Iphones and Phones after Android 10 are encrypted by default. </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>So, it’s important to get access to the phone via password of the user to do that. </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>For older Android / windows smart phones, doing a factory reset and then writing data / zeros to the hard drive is an effective method to make user data unreadable. </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span><b>Tools and Questions</b></span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>shred command </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>Can you shred dd on an android phone from a laptop via usb?</span></div><div aria-live="assertive"></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>dd command </span></div><div aria-live="assertive"><span>Can you run dd on an android phone from a laptop via usb?</span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><br><signature><br>_____________<br><em>Interim people lead and Web coordinator<br>I use he/him pronouns, My working days are Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.</em></signature></div></div></div><br><br><signature></signature></div></body></html>