Der Artikel ist zwar knapp ein Jahr alt, hat allerdings nichts an Aktualität verloren – Thematischer Hauptgegenstand ist das Password Recovery Toolkit:
[…] What’s happening is that the Windows operating system’s memory
management leaves data all over the place in the normal course of
operations. You’ll type your password into a program, and it gets
stored in memory somewhere. Windows swaps the page out to disk, and it
becomes the tail end of some file. It gets moved to some far out
portion of your hard drive, and there it’ll sit forever. Linux and Mac
OS aren’t any better in this regard. […] – Schneier on Security: Choosing Secure Passwords
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