http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/ Engadget Comments for Cold boot disk encryption attack is shockingly effective http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Chen_photo_scandal]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Chen_photo_scandal]]>Feb 23rd 2008 1:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
Thanks for reminding me why I hate CRapple. They pay blogs to hawk trash like this.]]>Feb 21st 2008 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 24th 2008 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
Seriously, if there's one mention of anything Apple, why do people start going "OH MA GAWD, UR APLE FANBOIS!!11!", but if there's mention of anything Microsoft no one goes nuts. Hmmm...]]>Feb 25th 2008 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
but seriously, that mention was unnecessary. stop being such apple supporters, engadget. ]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
(^.^)
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Just shut the f*** up. If you don't like what you read, just go somewhere else. No one is forcing you to read news here. If you don't like the news, and don't like Mac (which is fine with me) you should leave the rest of us with the Engadget we like.

I'm tired of you whiners.

Thanks, good bye.]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
And by the time you have de-soldered the chips from the Apple, you have to re-solder them back to a compatible circuit board or device. By the time you have done that - assuming you did - the chips should have lost their memos or could have been zapped by ESD or even fried by the heat of the soldering tool itself.

If you want a secure laptop, use a remote-triggered C4 charge and pack the explosives near the hard drive. When the laptop gets stolen, push the button. KA-BOOM! Bye bye data. And Laptop. And Theif.]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
Boot off a thumb drive and nab the contents of the RAM? How? If I am right, if you boot from a thumb drive it loads to the RAM, destroying anything in it!]]>Feb 21st 2008 10:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 22nd 2008 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/I doubt it's possible to effectively encrypt your RAM. The decryption has to happen somewhere and the keys have to be held somewhere as well. I suppose if you had very little ram and the keys could be stored in the processor cache. or you could keep the keys section of the ram encrypted.

@aguilez
it's theoretically possible if the program on the thumb drive is small enough to only overwrite a tiny part of the ram. but then its hit and miss
]]>Feb 22nd 2008 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 22nd 2008 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
No, Not really]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
And if Dell did it, I doubt there'd be a fuss.]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 22nd 2008 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
and really, what macbook air owner is going to do graphics? it's a fashion statement for people that check their e-mail and want to play the built in 3D chess (if it can even run that properly).

haha... soldiered in ram.]]>Feb 21st 2008 10:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 22nd 2008 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
...Google + Canonical FTW!]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
Pun *definitely* intended.]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
P.S. No, my reply is not relevant to Liam's comment. Yes, I am riding on Liam's coattails. Forgive my ways of the whore.]]>Feb 21st 2008 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/i feel 1337er.]]>Feb 21st 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Put a capacitor on the RAM module that holds enough power to write a pass of random data onto the memory once power is cut. Ensure it works in extreme cold ;p]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/but its still enjoyable watching you guys constantly hound engadget for every little apple mention
chillll out]]>Feb 21st 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
Sorry to nit-pick, buy I can't let someone be wrong on the internet.]]>Feb 21st 2008 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/ gas. To me that's a reaction, well not a classic oxygen reaction maybe I used the wrong term.

xkcd ftw!]]>Feb 22nd 2008 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/
No reactions, just changes of states and transfers of energy. Anyway, sorry to hijack this thread, just wanted to clarify.]]>Feb 22nd 2008 9:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/Feb 21st 2008 7:13PM