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inigyou 7 hours ago

If they have liquid nitrogen and a memory dumping boot disk, or a memory bus interceptor.

beAbU 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Is this still a viable attack in 2026?

dgellow 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

fc417fc802 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yes. Also depending on the implementation (ie if it's not an outdated Intel machine) it is presumably also vulnerable to snooping the memory bus while it's running. Note that this active attack applies regardless of encryption and impacts even enterprise SKUs. https://tee.fail/

inigyou 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

if you have liquid nitrogen and a memory dumping boot disk, or a memory bus interceptor