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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This seems performative since you could already do this easily unless the drive was bitlockered and you didn't have a recovery key.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Many admins aren't technical enough to automate, they're going to boot a recovery image and delete the file by hand everywhere. This will definitely save effort, plus is something you can give to non technical people.