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Researchers at Princeton University say all it takes to break the encryption that protects data on a computer hard drive is to freeze the machine's memory chip with a blast from a can of compressed air used for dusting. Researchers say freezing a dynamic random access memory chip causes it to retain data for minutes or even hours after the machine loses power. Those chips temporarily hold data, including the keys to the algorithms that scramble data.