[P1] Sleep or Shutdown?

[Jack Rodgers]

On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 08:56  PM, Mike Beede wrote:

> If by "finds it" you mean "steals it," logging out isn't going
> to make much difference.  If your files are that critical,
> put them on an encrypted volume and don't store the passcode
> on the machine.  Then logging out is reasonable, since they
> won't be able to reestablish the mount of the volume.

The encryption is indeed important as any and all OS X files that 
aren't password protected and or encrypted can be opened in OS 9 either 
by rebooting or using Firewire Disk Mode (whatever it is called) or 
even using OS 9 during network file sharing. The user passwords in OS X 
only work if you use OS X...

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