An image of an old dnm login window briefly flashed when I switched from Tails to another dist, should I be worried?

I use latest tails and logged onto a service through TOR. I then logged out of the service, and clicked "restart now" in the menu.

I removed the live usb and booted into my normal dist (Fedora). I get the normal login screen, type my usr/psw, and right after that there are some graphical glitches (as it loads Xwindows or video drivers or some such). The graphical distortions are there every time I log on, but this time instead of random artifacts it showed a hodgepodge of "cutnpasted" pieces of my Tails desktop, together with a browser window and the loginscreen for the service I was using.

Anybody knows what the hell is going on? Did it not flush some cache, and a Fedora video process called the same memory space or something? If so, why the hell did it display it?

Bit nervous, that shouldn't happen in any case.


Comments


[10 Points] ownowfuck:

The NSA was probably still finishing up their screengrabs. They didn't expect you to type in your username/pw so fast.


[10 Points] kamn74:

An image of an old dnm login window briefly flashed when I switched from Tails to another dist, should I be worried?

No.

Tails attempts to clear the main system RAM on shutdown or reboot. Depending on the hardware, it may fail to do so properly. If you have a separate graphics card with its own RAM on board, I'm not sure if Tails will clear that as well.

https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/memory_erasure/

If you are really worried, just do a shutdown instead of a reboot and let the system sit for a 5 or 10 minutes. The information stored in the graphics memory will naturally degrade over a short period of time.


[1 Points] YOUREfuckingSTUPIDM8:

Someone needs to update Liberte Linux's packages and re-package the distro. Anyone know GIT that could download a repo and update its packages? I got some bitcoin to give.


[0 Points] None:

It mean that you've been feeding into the botnet and tails has recorded everything you've done and sent it to Quantico, it's time to move to Belize Timmy.