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		thomas-st on March 18, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are passwords stored in memory safe? Is it possible that a (non-privileged) process could read data of a process that has previously terminated by looking at uninitialized memory and gain access to sensitive information that way?

FooBarWidget on March 18, 2013 | [–]

Most operating systems clear the ram pages when the process exits, or when it requests a page, so no.

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