While it's nice that someone is raising this genuine security issue, for most people the bigger issue is going to be unencrypted swap. Unencrypted swap means A

While it's nice that someone is raising this genuine security issue, for most people the bigger issue is going to be unencrypted swap. Unencrypted swap means ANY sensitive data in memory may well end up on disk (including a term buffer that has been carefully kept away from /tmp by the emulator author!). Surprisingly, many Linux distros, including Ubuntu, do NOT encrypt swap by default. That's probably something that should be higher priority than this specific (Linux platform specific) bug, IMHO. OS X, for what it's worth, DOES use secure swap by default starting with Snow Leopard (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh11852.html http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh1...). In prior releases, turning it on is a single checkbox. (There is at least one Google hit saying it was off by default in 10.6, but that's not the case, it was off in 10.5.)