Clear the computer's memory?

[Gabriel Jägenstedt]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> That being said, hopefully the mechanism will be improve/sophisticated,
> to overcome this problem. Maybe do something like my original
> assumption: use any partition with enough space, dump the contents of
> the RAM, and reload it back into RAM in the exact same state that it was
> before hibernating. 

Writing RAM to any available device is foolish. Some of us go to lengths
 to have secure systems. This includes encrypted swap. There is a lot of
secure stuff that use swap to store encryption keys and whatnot. Hence
keep RAM off ordinary disks.