Information disclosure?

[Dean Strik]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> Putting "deliberate paranoia" aside for a while, you can always _force_
> the syscons buffer to be cleared by toggling between a couple of
> different video modes:
> 
> 	# vidcontrol 80x30 ; vidcontrol 80x25 ; clear ; logout

vidcontrol -C is simpler and actually works :-)
Changing the videomodes doesn't generally clear the buffer.

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Dean C. Strik             Eindhoven University of Technology
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