Re: memory pages nulling when releasing

"R. B. Rid***" <arne_woerner@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@xxxxxx> 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 Smørgrav - des@xxxxxx
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