On 10/9/07, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > according to the speaker, most of the RAM may even survives for as long as > 30 seconds after powering off! At least on a ThinkPad T30 notebook (stated [..] > Another thing is Firewire, or hot-pluggable PCI cards (and everything else > which accesses RAM via DMA). This allows to read the RAM of the running > system by simply plugging in a firewire device. > So, resetting the system and booting another one, or plugging in a firewire > device, allows to get a memory dump. Scary, huh?
On the scary note, I've recently stumbled on this paper by Peter Gutmann, from the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, published in 2001 at a Usenix conference: Data Remanence in Semiconductor Devices [1]. Not much reassuring either ~_-. [1] http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/gutmann.html Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
