Article:		A Look at Keychain Access (and Why You Should Care)
Subject:		FileVault
Date:		2005-12-16 17:07:29
From:		Roshambo
Regarding someone stealing your Powerbook and stealing all your sekret fielz, FileVault (in System Preferences > Security) can do a pretty good job at preventing this, even if someone boots up the drive in target disk mode. Well worth a look.

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• FileVault
  2005-12-17 02:35:41  LeeNoble [View]
  
  
  Although if you were that concerned about unauthorised access then you'd have set your Open Firmware password a long time ago to stop anyone utilising Target Disk Mode at all.
• FileVault
  2005-12-19 01:35:15  nosumo [View]
  
  
  FileVault will serve you a whole lot better than the Open Firmware Password, which will be reset if a user changes the amount of the physical memory in the machine and then reboots.
• FileVault
  2005-12-19 09:36:20  consumer [View]
  
  
  For clarification to a simpleton like myself, one can just take a stolen laptop, place it in target disk mode, and subsequently acquire all keychain info?!? egads!
  
  Filevault scares me. I personally make password protected images. Fortunately I have never had keychain save the passwords, so I guess my sekrits is safe!
  
  
  
• FileVault
  2005-12-19 11:12:10  Giles Turnbull | [View]
  
  
  Not the Keychain contents, no. Just everything else on the disk that isn't encrypted. Apologies if I gave the wrong impression.
• FileVault
  2005-12-19 12:36:37  consumer [View]
  
  
  Ah. thanks for the response!