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To: Wes Peters <softweyr@xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: C2 Trusted FreeBSD? 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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>  > The only methods for obtaining the previous contents of a storage 
>  > location involve physical analog access to the hardware, and if you 
>  > have this then system security has already been compromised because you 
>  > could have recorded the original value when it was current.
> 
> Not according to the crowd of ex-Iomega engineers I work with.  With
> access to the head controls and the data splitter (i.e. poking around
> behaving like a device driver) you can do some pretty mysterious things
> to a disk drive.

Unfortunately for this, Wes, we were talking about _*DRAM*_.

mike