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[secureCoding2dave at davearonson.com (SC-L Subscriber Dave Aronson)]

Pete Shanahan [mailto:petesh at indigo.ie] writes:

> I'm just wondering how flawed the implementation of the windows
> paging model is that it would allow for this kind of breach. The
> standard model I'm familiar with would simply flush the page from
> memory, and would not keep a copy in the external page-file,
> instead relying on the copy that already exists on the disk.

Perhaps the code in question is stored compressed, so that there is no verbatim copy already on disk.  (I have no clue 
if Windows does this.)

-Dave