RAM

[jjbtcp]

Is it possible to read the data on your RAM?


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                 Joshua

[GX1_Man]

You have to look VERY closely. 


www.howstuffworks.com

[jjbtcp]

I dont mean the label on the actual piece of hardware. i mean to see what my computer is accessing off it?

[GX1_Man]

No, the info is binary.

[jjbtcp]

Well can you view the binary that is on it?

[hyperhedron]

what is the purpose?

This is like counting bubbles in a beer glass, the data changes faster than you can read the information, rendering the data useless.

[jjbtcp]

All i want to know is, is it possible, if so how?

The police over here in australia have precedures to save RAM so they can view it.

[hyperhedron]

i am also in australia and this kinda sounds suspicious.

First, where did you hear this? this sounds ridiculous for reasons below.

Second, how would it help the police? All data gets erased as soon as you switch it off, and even if you got your hands on an image of the data on the ram at any given time, it would be nearly impossible to analyse it and so would be useless to any investigation. Also an image would be impossible to get because using a program to image the RAM would almost certainly use the Ram itself and so would modify the data you were trying to get.

In short no.

[jjbtcp]

I cant remember where i heard it. Thanks for your help. at least now i know its impossible

[GX1_Man]

Ah, but what are you doing that is illegal? 

[saksham_barar]

u can, but it's all in binary. so u must understand binary to understand the stuff used by RAM.

[patio]

This was stated up there...

[Raptor]

You can dump the RAM to disk and then view it with a hexadecimal editor.

I know that Sysinternals has got a tool to dump the contents of the RAM to disk.

And Tsearch is a program that allows you to edit things in that are loaded into the memory.

Second, how would it help the police? All data gets erased as soon as you switch it off, and even if you got your hands on an image of the data on the ram at any given time, it would be nearly impossible to analyse it and so would be useless to any investigation. Also an image would be impossible to get because using a program to image the RAM would almost certainly use the Ram itself and so would modify the data you were trying to get.

In short no. Cool

Don't know where you got this from, but may I suggest going back to doing your homework?

You know, this guy is asking an interesting question and he gets branded for it, but meanwhile there are thousands of people out there who can't boot their PC and one of these people could be a pedophile. I don't see you asking any questions when someone is telling you their PC has got a virus?

Give it a break..

[jjbtcp]

Yeah, and GX1_Man im not doing anything illegal, im just interested in computers. Is it so bad wanting to know how to do something. I am looking forward to being a computer scientist or something when im older so who says that i might not need to know how to access binary on RAM?

[GX1_Man]

The police over here in australia have precedures to save RAM so they can view it.

You seemed overly concerned with this fact. You can see how I got to that point, eh? 

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I know a friend that can read binary.....

[GX1_Man]

I know a friend that can read binary.....

011100011100001010101010100000111000101 10100101010

Ask him what that means.

[Raptor]

Converting from binary to decimal is easy, that doesn't mean you can read it, they're just numbers.

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

011100011100001010101010100000111000101 10100101010

zero one one one zero zero one one one zero zero zero zero  one zero  one zero  one zero  one zero  one zero  one zero zero zero zero zero  one one one zero zero zero  one zero  one

Man that was hard