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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Computer Folklore
Keywords: Obtaining Passwords...
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Date: 11 Feb 89 05:35:21 GMT
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In article <557@rpi.edu> jefu@pawl.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Putnam) writes:
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>I discovered that when you asked for memory (or was it disk, or both?) what
>you got was not zeroed out.

In RSTS/E you could ask for disk space and what you got was not zeroed out.
So you could scan it and read entire files - in fact somebody wrote a
utility for recovering accidentally deleted files.  UNIX is less rewarding
that way, since it rarely puts successive blocks of a file into contiguous
blocks on disk.
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