Re: information leak in vga console scrollback buffer

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Sat Jun 12 2004 - 15:59:59 EST


On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:54:43PM +0200, Koblinger Egmont wrote:

> Rationale? (At least an rtfm-like pointer to that?)

Maybe I didn't full understand you. Generally I find it desirable to
be able to read things that scrolled off the screen a long time ago.
It's very useful for unattended machines if I need to 'look' back.

I take it you're talking about something beyond that?


--cw
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