Re: memory pages nulling when releasing

"R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@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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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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