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		cyphar 76 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found ... Most FDE systems are not authenticated so you would only lose one block (16 bytes for AES). Can this be bad? Yeah, but it's not that bad for data recovery.

cyphar 76 days ago [–]

Not to mention that most drives start having issues with dead sectors rather than bitflips, and that's (usually) 4K.

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