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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!
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FileVault
2005-12-19 11:12:10 Giles Turnbull |
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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!
