• ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s a variation of a cold boot attack. Instead of forcing an OS crash and rebooting into an OS connected to a portable drive, you cool the memory to extend the time you have before the data degrades and can then do whatever you want with it. I believe you can extend it up to a week.

    https://citp.princeton.edu/our-work/memory/