I'm not able to find anything saying if this will work or not. I have a bunch of Intel iMacs to erase company data off of then get rid of. They were setup before I got here, and they were setup without FileVault. If I turn FileVault ON, let it encrypt then forget the password and reinstall whichever version of macos, is the data "gone"? I get that it wouldn't be DOD gone, but I'm not looking for that level, just gone enough that an average person won't be able to recover the data.
My other thought is to boot them all in recovery mode with diskutil wiping them, or maybe Target Disk Mode daisy chained and running shred/nwipe from a Linux box.
Yes, I asked why there was no FileVault but that's another discussion.
My other thought is to boot them all in recovery mode with diskutil wiping them, or maybe Target Disk Mode daisy chained and running shred/nwipe from a Linux box.
Yes, I asked why there was no FileVault but that's another discussion.