Written on February 26, 2008 – 12:03 pm | by Dana |

Princeton University researchers discovered a method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks. And is not that complicated ccording to them but certainly can be for us.
The secret is in freezing of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) chip. This is done to exploit the little-known vulnerability of the DRAM chip.



The innovation is that these chips hold data and when the computer’s electrical power is turn off, the data must or should disappear. Interesting is that the chips actually retain their data for seconds or even minutes after power is cut off. So, if the chips are frozen then the data gets frozen, too and that reveals the key with long string of vulnerable binary data. Great news, don't you think?