Shouldn't a decent OS scrub RAM and disk sectors before allocating them to processes, unless that process enters processor privileged mode and sets a call flag? I recall digging through disk sectors on RSTS/E to look for passwords and other interesting stuff over 30 years ago.
matthew black california state university, long beach -----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:31 AM To: Bengt Larsson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years] > It's quite plausible that they watch the changes in open-source > projects to find bugs. They could do nice diffs and everything. the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be doing this. we failed. randy
