[Shacs] cold facts on hacking with memory resident passwords

[Bronius Motekaitis]

This little article:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/researchers-dis.html
has a neat video at the end:

   - ram takes a while to fade even when not plugged in
   - ram chips fade time is longer when cooled with a coolant
   - software (if bootable by usb is set..) can hijack a stolen pc's ram
   and suck out a password

cheers
-bronius
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