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Re:Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of... by binbash on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:25PM (#9247721)
shutdown clears, reboot doesnt.
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Re:Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of... by nitrogen on Sunday March 22, 2015 @08:22PM (#9248818)
Shutdown actually doesn't clear RAM, hence the "cold boot attack" terminology. Eventually the data will degrade, but eventually can be a long time.
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Re:Is Your VirtualBox Reading Your E-Mail? Reconstruction of... by binbash on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @09:57AM (#9256541)
Yeah. My comment was ment to answer the question above yours...
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