On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 02:12:38AM +0100, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Yea this is a bummer. During my first attempt at this, I actually > overwrote the whole thing with zeros and then deleted it. But Ard > pointed out that this doesn't make a difference anyway. But, as it turns > out, that's more or less the same thing that happens with seed files on > SSDs (nobody calls fstrim after overwriting a seed file). So at the very > least, it's no worse? Anyone with the ability to directly read the flash variable store is almost certainly in a position to do worse things, so I wouldn't worry about it.
