On 03/04/18 01:07, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > the plaintext passwords would > disappear from RAM (except to the extent that (iiuc) there are (NSA) ways to > recover the contents of RAM if power is restored to the machine fairly > quickly).
I'm not sure you actually need to be the NSA for that. Anything you can plug in that can do DMA can probably do it - firewire is one option, but for something with PCI(e) or other slots you could probably plug in a special card (or maybe just a firewire card). I think the RAM will persist for a few minutes at least. Richard
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