Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]

[Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>]

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