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 t...