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Now recursively create more layers until you have barely any free space left on the disk, then do some performance benchmarks. ;)

Seems like it would be fairly inefficient having to encrypt and decrypt data twice.

...Hopefully.

Have fun trying to find what went poof. :)

And to shut down the day of a total solar eclipse? That's extra mean.

Yeah I'm thinking that's most likely the problem.

The debris and surrounding rock looks likes it's a few different colors, so I'd guess it's different types of rock.

I second this. Use a tool like ValiDrive to test whether that's the case; if it is, anything you've copied to the drive is unrecoverable.

That link appears to be broken.

Things like this make me glad I don't use Windows.

Albuquerque seemed alright when I went there, though admittedly there was an eclipse going on at the time which may have influenced my opinions.

I was thinking more of using a debugger to see the API calls the app is making before SSL, not intercepting them over the network. Getting the secret would be harder but I assume it's stored somewhere in the app or app data and could be extracted. I'd be surprised if social media apps are storing it in the TPM.

I guess it comes down to whether it's easier/cheaper to do all of the above than to just buy a bunch of physical phones.

Ah yes, using AI to solve problems with AI.