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Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Perreault)
Mon Apr 14 10:46:45 2014

Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:46:24 -0400
From: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Le 2014-04-14 10:38, Matthew Black a écrit :
> Shouldn't a decent OS scrub RAM and disk sectors before allocating them to processes, unless that process enters processor privileged mode and sets a call flag? I recall digging through disk sectors on RSTS/E to look for passwords and other interesting stuff over 30 years ago.

All modern OSes do that. What's your point?

Simon
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