Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips with chilling technology

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we built this very affordable, surprisingly accurate robot that literally freezes one RAM chip on the device at a time.

I wonder what that process entails.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

as with all hacks on computers, the fact that someone actually has the machine in their possession is the main problem. If you can run a live CD to get at 99% of most people's data, this sort of thing is so borderline-useless as to be a masturbatory excercise

[–]Musky 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's chilling.