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On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:05:31AM -0300, Enki wrote:
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> 	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaicPIgn9U

It gets worse. With a special firewire or USB-2 device you can simply
dump the entierty of the computers memory at will using the DMA
interface. More recent AMD chips have a mechanism to protect from that
attact, essentially extending process memory protection to external
devices, but most don't. Assuming that brand new protection works might
be wrong too.

A SDRAM chip with built-in zeroization would be very nice.

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