Nerdbloke

(…and a fair bit of nerd action).

This arstechnica article discusses how a few geeks at Princeton Uni figured out that freezing the RAM chips in your computer can preserve the state of the memory, long enough for them to extract the contents ofthe keys used to encrypt your hard-drives of files.

Using the gas from of compressed air can (and some USB-bootable operating systems) they can get access to drives/files encrypted using BitLocker and TrueCrypt.

Wow. Awesome effort.

• arstecnica article
• vids and images of how it works
• faqs
• the actual research paper

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