2008/02/23
IT security policy “research”
“Researchers find way to steal encrypted data,” screams this article in the New York Times.
Oh do they? But come… on…, what is this ridiculous demonstration? Okay, okay, it’s the IT Policy School over there, let’s cut them some slack. What they’ve come up with is a way to read seated DRAM under OS lock without specialized hardware, and if they said that, it would be fine.
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