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Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Slakinski)
Sat Jul 17 17:05:51 2004
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 07:55:02 -0400
From: Ray Slakinski <ray.slakinski@gmail.com>
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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
