On Wed, February 23, 2005 1:08 pm, KF (lists) said: > Recently I have noticed that after shutting down my machine or rebooting > my X-windows will briefly flash an image of whatever I was doing when I > rebooted the machine or logged out. > > As an example if I was browsing porn at night in mozilla just before I > clicked "K->Logout...->Reboot Computer" in KDE, the next morning when my > Girlfriend turns my computer on she gets a quick 2 second shot of my > porn just before the KDM login screen. > > What causes this? Can it be prevented? I can certainly see sensitive > data potentially being leaked via this quirk.
All kidding aside, this seems to be a real security issue. Your system shouldn't be showing unauthorized users what you were doing. It should properly flush the memory. Does a power off flush it? -Eric -- arctic bears - email and dns services http://www.arcticbears.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
