Yes Matthew it should. The question is whether they do or not. Todd On 4/14/2014 7:38 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.
matthew black california state university, long beach
-----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:31 AM To: Bengt Larsson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for Years]
It's quite plausible that they watch the changes in open-source projects to find bugs. They could do nice diffs and everything. the point of open source is that the community is supposed to be doing this. we failed.
randy
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