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Edit: Deleted my comment because I felt it wasn’t constructive.

pilsetnieks 8y ago
There was one guy on reddit who had a scare when his computer flashed a picture of a dead person when shutting down, and he thought his computer was haunted. It turned out to be a frame from a youtube video he was watching earlier. It may be that macOS is not that good at clearing out GPU memory sometimes.
- ben_w 8y ago
  I have the exact opposite problem. When I reboot after system updates, half a dozen YouTube videos in Chrome tabs start playing over each other on the password screen. They get through about 20 seconds before I can stop the last of them. Audio only on the password screen, but all audible.
- SilasX 8y ago
  I’ve long had a similar problem on iOS. Whenever I return to an app, I briefly see an image from a few minutes ago. Which can be bad if I’m showing the phone to someone that old state was exposing sensitive data.
mcpherrinm 8y ago
Yes, I experience this routinely. As do many other people at my company. In particular it happens when attaching external monitors while the screen is locked. There's a flash of the unlocked desktop. I am guessing this is because the screen lock is an application drawing over top of the monitor, like XScreensaver on Linux does. A more secure-by-default architecture would have screen locking built into the display server at some lower level: If the screen is not unlocked, it will not allow the data to be passed to the GPU. It's easy for me to arm-chair architect though.
MagicPropmaker 8y ago
Apple claims, falsely, that their Operating System is "secure by design". (See https://www.apple.com/business/resources/docs/iOS_Security_Overview.pdf https://www.apple.com/business/resources/docs/iOS_Security_O... ) This is an outright lie. However, I'm not sure a typical iOS user cares.
thinkling 8y ago
I used to see this regularly but haven't noticed it in a long while. I always assumed they were doing something like a double-buffering type trick and switching framebuffers before wiping stale content from the destination.

There was one guy on reddit who had a scare when his computer flashed a picture of a dead person when shutting down, and he thought his computer was haunted. It turned out to be a frame from a youtube video he was watching earlier. It may be that macOS is not that good at clearing out GPU memory sometimes.

ben_w 8y ago
I have the exact opposite problem. When I reboot after system updates, half a dozen YouTube videos in Chrome tabs start playing over each other on the password screen. They get through about 20 seconds before I can stop the last of them. Audio only on the password screen, but all audible.
SilasX 8y ago
I’ve long had a similar problem on iOS. Whenever I return to an app, I briefly see an image from a few minutes ago. Which can be bad if I’m showing the phone to someone that old state was exposing sensitive data.

mcpherrinm 8y ago

Yes, I experience this routinely. As do many other people at my company. In particular it happens when attaching external monitors while the screen is locked. There's a flash of the unlocked desktop. I am guessing this is because the screen lock is an application drawing over top of the monitor, like XScreensaver on Linux does. A more secure-by-default architecture would have screen locking built into the display server at some lower level: If the screen is not unlocked, it will not allow the data to be passed to the GPU. It's easy for me to arm-chair architect though.

MagicPropmaker 8y ago

Apple claims, falsely, that their Operating System is "secure by design". (See https://www.apple.com/business/resources/docs/iOS_Security_Overview.pdf https://www.apple.com/business/resources/docs/iOS_Security_O... ) This is an outright lie. However, I'm not sure a typical iOS user cares.

thinkling 8y ago

I used to see this regularly but haven't noticed it in a long while. I always assumed they were doing something like a double-buffering type trick and switching framebuffers before wiping stale content from the destination.