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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.

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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


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