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by londons_explore 1044 days ago
I feel like a good half of machines I find with glitchy graphics drivers seem to show bits of textures from one application inside another application - indicating memory contents leakage between contexts. Chunks of webpages from Chrome appearing in 3D games seems common.

And those are accidentally caused leaks. As soon as someone starts storing actually sensitive data in graphics memory, I'm sure lots of methods to deliberately cause leaks will be found.

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I've had a more extreme case in a dual boot configuration of some graphics corruption on my Linux desktop exposing a mirrored and discolored frame of my prior Windows desktop from before rebooting.