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Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Petach)
Mon Apr 14 23:56:12 2014
In-Reply-To: <534C9DD2.4060000@dougbarton.us>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 20:55:38 -0700
From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
To: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On 04/14/2014 05:50 PM, John Levine wrote:
>
>> In article <534C68F4.305@cox.net> you write:
>>
>>> On 4/14/2014 9:38 AM, Matthew Black wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have been out of the loop for quite a while but my strongly held
>>> belief is that such scrubbing would be an enormous (and intolerable)
>>> overhead ...
>>>
>>
>> It must be quite a while. Unix systems have routinely cleared the RAM
>> and disk allocated to programs since the earliest days.
>>
>
> When you say "clear the disk allocated to programs" what do you mean
> exactly?
>
Is that like "sudo rm -rf /bin" ?
;P
Matt
