[rasz]

It wont touch G-List (growing list of weak/defective sectors https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=41352) nor HPA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_protected_area).

While the second one relies on active attack hiding data for exfiltration, first poses statistically possible scenario where a sector containing sensitive data like password or part of mbox with "We are operating a fucking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro" becomes weak read (still fully completed, but slow) and gets remapped. Anyone with PC-3000 can recover this data.