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Digital Ocean API is not told to scrub (securely delete) VM on destroy #2525

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Major security issue: the Digital Ocean API has a parameter on the destroy call to securely scrub the root blockdev on VM destroy, preventing future customers from reading the data left on disk by your VM.

This is surely a digitalocean security issue, but they're passing it on to users by making it a parameter - rather shitty of them. This is documented in their API at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/api_access - see "scrub_data".

Fog does not pass this parameter, leaving Fog-destroyed VMs vulnerable to later customers stealing the data contained on them.

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