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SubjectRe: information leak in vga console scrollback buffer
Hi!

> > Using the standard vga console, it is easily possible to read some
> > random pieces of texts that were scrolled out a long time ago (often
> > you can see your boot messages or similar stuff even after switcing
> > to another console or even to X. All you need is a local user access
> > to the console.
>
> Feature not bug.

Read it again. Scrollback should be cleared by console switch,
but it can be recovered using obscure escape sequence.

Time for bugtraq?

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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms

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