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		dexen on April 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZeroBin, opensource Pastebin where the server has ... > If you power the box down, anything stored in ram is lost. That's the theory of ideal RAM, but in practice RAM is not ideally volatile. Cf.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

toomuchtodo on April 17, 2012 [–]

I believe that in almost all cases, the LEO tasked with seizing equipment in an operation are going to be ill-equipped to execute this attack. Now, if its the CIA or NSA after you, you have other problems.

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