On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Someone want to add some advice about using good passwords,
encrypting your most sensative data, etc - so the hardware theft
doesn't turn into identity theft?
Good point.
This is the province, in OS X, of FileVault, commonly named
VileFault. That said, DON'T use it.
In theory, encrypting your entire home directory is a good idea, but
Apple doesn't encrypt/decrypt files on the fly. Filevault turns your
user directory into a single large encrypted disk image. Way too
vulnerable, all it takes is a teensy bit of file corruption durng a
save and BLAMMO, everything's hosed. It's an "all your eggs in one
basket" thing.
You can approximate the safety, without nearly as much risk, by using
Disk Utility (or Disk Copy in 10.2) and create password protected
disk images to save your sensitive data.
Keychain also lets you create secure notes, to store passwords, pins,
etc.
As for password security, and in general snoop-proofing your mac, I
refer to the Masters of Paranoia, the NSA: <http://www.nsa.gov/snac/
downloads_macX.cfm?MenuID=scg10.3.1.1> Your tax dollars at work, and
good value for the money, imo. The NSA has a long series on securing
various computing systems.
I suspect you won't go so far as to open the box and clip the
microphone wires to disable it 8-) but the section on using keychain
is valuable, and gives good advice on the problems of maintaining
hard to crack passwords without having to memorize a bazillion things
like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just keep in mind that the NSA is more concerned with data getting
into the wrong hands than data retention. Generally we're more
concerned about data retention.
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