memory pages nulling when releasing
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Mon Jun 19 11:49:24 UTC 2006
"R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner at yahoo.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > 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...
I very much doubt it. DRAM needs to be continuously refreshed, and
loses its state within milliseconds of losing power.
> At least I saw that in TV (CSI Wanne-Eickel or so), how they read from a
> overwritten hard disc shreddered with a "laser"...
Umm, first, CSI is fiction; second, unlike DRAM, a hard disk is
designed to retain information when power is switched off.
DES
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