On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:20:20 +0000
[email protected] wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 05:21:34AM +0000, [email protected] wrote 1.3K 
> bytes in 29 lines about:
> : Thanks, but I'm still a little unclear. You say "no"- it's basically the 
> TBB workings, but it seems an open question atm? So is there anything else 
> apart from disk cache ...swap files..flash cookies (flash shouldn't be on but 
> if it were, would it also leave traces that wouldn't happen with Tails, a 
> liveCD or a VM?) 
> 
> You asked two questions. I answered both.  The first question
> you asked is: "Does TBB write user content to disk?" The answer
> to the first question is no, it uses ram cache only. The
> second question you implied was similar to "what does the
> operating system write to disk while using TBB?" This is an
> open question, albeit one with a very old answer located here,
> https://gitweb.torproject.org/torbrowser.git/blob/HEAD:/docs/traces.txt.

I didnt see the following notions addressed at that link:

If a operating system is very short of RAM, could the operating system  swap 
out TBB's RAM cache to hard disk or is that prohibited somehow?  Might this 
also happen if a system goes into Hibernate state (more likely on a laptop)?  

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