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Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk
From: Ray Slakinski <ray.slakinski () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:55:02 -0400
This all depends on the amount of ram you have and what is nornally done on your mac. Still a major issue you have, but if you put in
640 you probably have nothing to worry about. A sad work around I
know, but while we wait for the ever slow to fix things - namely Apple - its the best you can do. [-----] Ray Slakinski GnuPG Fingerprint: 9065 5C54 2C4A B13B 52BB C37A 125B F012 08A7 0A54 Blog: http://ddll.sdf1.net On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:05:45 +0200, Adi Kriegisch <adi () cg tuwien ac at> wrote:
The swapfiles are deleted on startup -- this means even a clean shutdown by user leaves the passwords on disk. So if you loose your powerbook someone might boot it in "target disk mode" and will be able to get your password! Adi
Current thread:
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Adi Kriegisch (Jul 15)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Theo Van Dinter (Jul 17)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Adi Kriegisch (Jul 24)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Ray Slakinski (Jul 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk johnny (Jul 17)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Kurt Seifried (Jul 18)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Chris Boyd (Jul 19)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk James Goodlet (Jul 19)
- RE: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Michael Shirk (Jul 19)
- Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk Theo Van Dinter (Jul 17)