On 1/3/2012 10:32 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Ummm...yeah. You do realize that in order to use your data you need to decrypt it, right? :-)
Yeah, but that data remains local within hopefully protected memory areas. Bacukps usually run to external storage of some sort, be they flash drives or NAS or what have you. Take the Firewire or USB link bewteen a Macintosh and its Time Machine disk. This link is completely unauthenticated and unsecured. An attacker could tap that connection without any difficulty.
There are ways to deal with this but they add complexity to the backup system. The more complex you make the backup system, the more difficult you make it to use.
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