This article is just an analysis of one of the inherent and well-documented weaknesses in truecrypt: the fact that the encryption key must stay in RAM the entire time you are using an encrypted volume. So, as has always been the case, treat the contents of your RAM as precious when a truecrypt volume is mounted.
How would you treat your RAM contents as precious? Just making sure you're on a pristine machine, and nothing else is running? Can other unrelated processes access the key from RAM?
It means if you're worried about the contents of your encrypted drives being uncovered, you need to make sure no malicious processes gain access to a dump of your system's memory while it's booted / running / encrypted drives are mounted.
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