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Re:A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail by lloeki on Sunday June 30, 2013 @05:10AM (#5965185)
> Isn't the pure hardware method for memory snapshots some ridiculously complex mechanism with freezing the memory and quickly transferring it to a reading device?

With Virtual Private Servers, it's trivial to do the virtualized version of this through the hypervisor.

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Re:A Hacker's Replacement for Gmail by etherael on Sunday June 30, 2013 @05:25AM (#5965215)
My original statement said "dedicated server". The response said; "virtual server attack, also works with pure hardware machines". The only version of this attack that is relevant to the original statement is one that works on a dedicated server, so re-stating that it's trivial to do this against a virtual private server isn't really adding anything to the conversation.
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