full-disclosure - Xfree86 video buffering?

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From: kf_lists at digitalmunition.com (KF (lists))
Subject: Xfree86 video buffering? 

Recently I have noticed that after shutting down my machine or rebooting 
my X-windows will briefly flash an image of whatever I was doing when I 
rebooted the machine or logged out.

As an example if I was browsing porn at night in mozilla just before I 
clicked "K->Logout...->Reboot Computer" in KDE, the next morning when my 
Girlfriend turns my computer on she gets a quick 2 second shot of my 
porn  just before the KDM login screen.

What causes this? Can it be prevented? I can certainly see sensitive 
data potentially being leaked via this quirk.
-KF