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Old 02-26-2008, 03:49 PM
Gil Hamilton
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Default Re: Should Linux wipe memory more often for better security?

plenty900@yahoo.com wrote in
news:b03617a5-3543-43d7-84e6-32910fe2b82b@q33g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

> Turns out, DHS, which has been spying illegally for some years now,
> has found a way to read DRAM data *after powerdown* -- presumably
> it would work after normal shutdown or sudden power loss.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/te..._r=2&ei=5087&e
> m=&en=13d01f43eefefaeb&ex=1203915600&pagewanted=pr int&oref=slogin&oref=
> slogin


Go to the original source and read (or just watch the video):
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

And no, this work wasn't done by Homeland Security. If it had been DHS, we
would never have heard about it.

GH

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