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Julien Oster wrote:
>Of course one could say "then let's just stop writing out anything in
>the kernel buffer that COULD be sensitive", but I think this would
>actually castrate the meaning of such a buffer.

Would it?  I can't think of anything that currently should be printed
to the ring buffer and is known to be secret.