May 24, 2022, 9:06 a.m. | /u/technicalques98

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I had sold off a laptop I no longer use to a local shop, but I think I made a big mistake, it had my personal my files although I stored them in an encrypted veracrypt container. It had Linux (Fedora 35) installed with full disk encryption (LUKS). When selling the laptop, I installed Windows on the SSD, I only deleted the partition, I did not use secure wipe or format the whole disk by overwriting it.

Do I need …

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