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Fatman

re-use infected hard drives

<quote>If you don't need to keep them around for forensic reasons or "just in case" the crypto is cracked, then you can re-use them.</quote>

Just hope that the malware didn't infect, and alter the hard drives' firmware; otherwise you just might be royally fucked.

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