re: #123 danarchy

Generally to recover anything from ram you need access to it immediately after power has been removed and you need to drop it’s temperature below freezing rapidly to preserve the state of the capacitors. That buys you a few minutes to try to pull some useful data off it, but that can be pretty hit or miss depending on what was in memory just before shut down.

For the average schmo not something you really need to worry about. Bios generally only contains system settings so not likely to be anything in there to be concerned about.

Thank you for your reply. So you’re saying that removing the hard drive is sufficient security?