[sillysaurus2]

Thanks! I wonder how long it would take for someone to scrub their VM manually using dd before terminating it? Maybe the same length of time? 12 minutes seems a pretty reasonable amount of time, but since it's an SSD the writes could take >3x longer than the reads.

[gregimba]

The other thing you could do instead of trusting Digital Ocean you could use shred on your sensitive files before you destroy the droplet.

[sillysaurus2]

That's true, but if you've already rm'd a bunch of sensitive files, their data unfortunately can't be shredded. So you'll have to make sure you've always used shred for everything since the beginning, which is good practice but probably rare.