[acura]

Cold boot, you keep using this word and you don't know what it means. Or is it me who have a screwed definiton of cold boot?

[jo909]

As defined in the article: "when a computer is reset without following proper procedures (what’s known as a cold/hard reboot)"

Even if you disagree, "cold boot attack" is the established name for the actual attack, the new aspect presented here is how to circumvent a certain firmware protection that would overwrite the memory on a cold boot to prevent that attack.

If you would give your definition we could see if it is right, too.

[acura]

I thought the definition of cold boot was a boot from a powered down state.

[detaro]

Cold boot attack: An attack in which a running system is reset and information extracted from its memory that survived the reset. Seems like the article is using it correctly.