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doc: minor clarification in buffer.markdown
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Replaced "contents is" with "contents are".
Added a note that initial Buffer contents could contain sensitive data.

PR-URL: #2574
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Trevor Norris <trev.norris@gmail.com>
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ChALkeR authored and rvagg committed Aug 28, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ Allocates a new buffer of `size` bytes. `size` must be less than
otherwise a `RangeError` is thrown.

Unlike `ArrayBuffers`, the underlying memory for buffers is not initialized. So
the contents of a newly created `Buffer` is unknown. Use `buf.fill(0)`to
initialize a buffer to zeroes.
the contents of a newly created `Buffer` are unknown and could contain
sensitive data. Use `buf.fill(0)` to initialize a buffer to zeroes.

### new Buffer(array)

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