On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Ted Gould <
ted@gould.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:48 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> > http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede
> >
> > In Linux would an effective counter to this type of attack be scrabbled
> > the RAM on shutdown? I also am not sure if the people that steal laptops
> > would have the skills to do what the researchers are doing.
>
> No, because when shutting down there is no issue. The concern here is
> suspend and hibernate. If you are very worried about security,
> hibernate is probably not a great idea. Suspend, unless you're keeping
> something from the NSA I wouldn't worry too much. It's kinda like GPG
> keys over a couple thousand bits today, sure the NSA can probably crack
> them if they wanted, but are YOU important enough to fill out all that
> paperwork?
>
looks like you're trying to prompt another telecom immunity discussion... :)
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