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Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption

As i usually say, computer must be secure at all ISO/OSI layers starting from physical layer. If physical layer is not secure, there ins’t security.
Take a look at this research paper from Freedom to Tinker blog.

"Today eight colleagues and I are releasing a significant new research result.
We show that disk encryption, the standard approach to protecting
sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple
methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three
popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows
Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS X; and dm-crypt, which is used
with Linux. The research team includes J. Alex Halderman, Seth D.
Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William Clarkson, William Paul, Joseph A.
Calandrino, Ariel J. Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum, and Edward W. Felten.

Our site has links to the paper, an explanatory video, and other materials."

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