Women in Technology

Article:		Securing Your TiBook (or Any Other Mac OS X Machine)
Subject:		What about Firewire Target disk mode?
Date:		2003-02-18 20:44:48
From:		leejoramo1
Do these security mesures prevent Target disk mode access? For those who don't know, Target disk mode allows your system to appear as an external Firewire drive to another computer. You start the system up and hold down the "T" key until a Firewire logo appears on the screen. (And yes, I remember that this trick is not exclusive to Firewire, it also worked back in the SCSI days.)

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• What about Firewire Target disk mode?
  2003-02-20 13:54:16  Ian F. Darwin | [View]
  
  
  This is the one thing I did not test, because I never use this mode. But, if it requires a key sequence like holding down T while booting, then you will not get into it once you have set a security mode and a password.
• What about Firewire Target disk mode?
  2003-02-23 21:39:53  anonymous2 [View]
  
  
  I figured this out by chance! After password prompt,
  type "target-mode".
  
  THANK YOU for this great article- I had a scare last month and I am SO GLAD this will make the machine a paperweight in anyone else's hands.