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February 22, 2008 - 03:56 PM

NERD ALERT: Lest We Remember

Very interesting research out of Princeton University: a computer's RAM can be dumped up to an hour after it is shut down, allowing keys for encrypted drives, passwords, etc. to be correctly recovered. They even have a fully automated proof-of-concept against one particular encrypted drive product, as can be seen in this pretty cool video:

(And in case you were wondering, here's how two of the co-authors celebrated submitting their paper.)

Ross Thomas

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