Researchers have discovered that it’s possible to retrieve data stuck in an Android phone’s RAM after it has been frozen. Seems bizarre, but it’s apparently a very legitimate security problem. The scientists, who studied the technique at Erlangen University, call the process Forensic Recovery of Scrambled Telephones, or FROST for short.
Here’s how it works, as described by Forbes: the researchers found that if they cool down a phone’s RAM long enough, then there’s a small window of time, just a few seconds, in which they can connect the phone to a computer and pull out the data that was stored in memory.
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