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Skeithex wrote:
I think if they were able to do that, there is nothing a person can do but not have a phone.
This is true. I think some robbers may remove the old storage chip to install a bigger storage chip like 128GB chip, so they can sell it for more money compared to selling a used phone with a 16GB storage chip which maybe harder to sell at a high price to used phone buyers.
Robbers may eventually try to use a PC and data hacking programs to read the old chips data to look for banking data, passwords, and other info.
Smashing stuff will work at protecting your data. But, it is not a good option if you want to earn money by selling used storage devices like a SSD drive or USB hard drive to get back some of your money.
I saw on TV that it is difficult to extract data on an a storage drive which uses encryption, and a very long password. If a drive been wiped many times like 10 times, it maybe difficult for most people to extract data from a drive which has strong encryption and has been wiped many times.
Maybe it is best just to keep using your old storage devices at home until the storage device breaks, and the users smashes the broken drives.
If the storage chip is on a phone, it maybe best to install a new storage chip before selling the phone, and keep the old storage chip as a spare storage chip if you ever need a replacement storage chip to repair a phone, or install the storage chip on a USB circuit board, and use it as a USB flash drive.
