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Re: [Full-disclosure] Most Linux distributions don't use tmpfs nor encrypt swap by default
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- Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Most Linux distributions don't use tmpfs nor encrypt swap by default
- From: Jon Dowland <jon+full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:45:23 +0100
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 01:22:30PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> Hello. After posting the flaw with libvte's handling of the scrollback
> buffer (writing it to disk), there were several people who made the
> erroneous claim that most distributions of Linux use tmpfs now and
> encrypt swap and that this shouldn't be an issue.
The libvte maintainers are considering changing things to use /var/tmp
anyway, so as to *avoid* tmpfs.
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