[X4U] Re: Macintosh security (How to protect files and Applications for stolen computers)

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On Nov 14, 2005, at 4:29 PM, John Richardson wrote:

> 2)This seems like overkill, so some apple store employee suggested  
> this. a) Take the files you want protected. Create a disk image and  
> encrypt the disk image using Apple's disk utilities. [I suppose  
> that you could then use file vault to double encrypt the material]

That is what I use, but instead of the File Vault I use password  
protected files inside the encrypted DMG.

The only thing to look out for that when you mount the DMG is that  
Keychain will offer to save the password for you, which obviously  
would be a silly thing to do.

As far as Applications go, I think the performance hit would be  
significant enough to not want to do this, but if you really wanted  
to you could put each app in its own DMG and just mount the ones you  
need.

TjL


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