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zokier on March 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Terminal scrollback written to local disk, includi...

I think the major attack vector for this is lost/stolen laptops and recycled disks.

ori_b on March 7, 2012 [–]

I'd be just at least as worried about data sitting in named files (not to mention swap). If you're worried about lost/stolen laptops, encrypt the disk.

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