I am reminded of 1977, when the Colossal Cave "Adventure" program was crowding out real work in the lab on the PDP10. The game had an overlay that randomized it to keep people from gaming the game by reading the core dump.
Now, 40 years later, one must ask why data in caches is in the clear? Shouldn't all data have a wired key relative to its secure level (e.g. user vs kernel) that must be available for the data to be useful? Therefore even if data is "stolen" from the kernel by this nefarious hack, then the data is useless without the associated key. Really NOTHING should be in CLEAR TEXT. Ever. 'Nuff said.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
