"R. B. Riddick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
