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Re: DOS

The linked article explains how you can remove the memory from a running machine, and plug it into a special "memory reader" box which will dump the contents, including the in-memory copy of the TPM keys needed to get into the encrypted drive. In some cases, the contents of RAM persist long enough when unpowered to even do this at room temperature. The length of time before the memory contents decays is inversely proportional to the temperature, so if you were to use something like liquid N2, you could go and take a nice long bath, go out and do some shopping, stopping for a pint on the way home, then come back, and the contents would still be there.

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