Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 03:11:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Dag-Erling "Smørgrav" <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Nick Borisov <neiro21@gmail.com> Subject: Re: memory pages nulling when releasing Message-ID: <20060619101133.31660.qmail@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <86odwpwm84.fsf@xps.des.no>
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--- Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> writes: > > (bb) physical access (for reading the content of powered off RAM) > > You cannot read the content of powered-off DRAM. > Yes, that it is true. _I_ cannot read powered-off DRAM... But my feathered friends beyond the seven mountains with bird-like heads and big muscled chests and arms and legs and a super-duper-computer (abbr.: CIA) could possibly do that... At least I saw that in TV (CSI Wanne-Eickel or so), how they read from a overwritten hard disc shreddered with a "laser"... -Arne --- Arne likes Keanu Reeves and Dr.Evil and CSI... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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