On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:38:29PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: Content-Description: signed data [snip] > The contents of video ram aren't initialized by the hardware. They just > come up in a random state are and just going to be overwritten--why > would the video card both to zero it out? Isn't that a security problem? What if the old contents contained the image of the root password or other sensitive information?