Thanks Jason. In addition to the stuff in the article, I have auto-log-in disabled, run my own account as non-admin and use 1Password with no form filling allowed in Safari etc. 1Password is brilliant, well worth the money, I have it on mac and iPhone.
One thing that slightly concerned me from the Apple support article was the statement that booting in target disk mode would be blocked. So if my drive went belly-up, would it still be possible to retrieve data, provided the data recovery person/company had the firmware password? (Yes, yes, back-up, back-up and back-up again. I do!) ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.sslmcs.co.uk/ Tel 01372389271 ---------------------------------------------------------- Have your say about NHS market reforms Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk On 19 April 2010 13:38, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 19 Apr 2010, at 11:27, Russell Brown wrote: > > > > > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352 > > > > Worthwhile, given my macbook travels to a fiar few meetings ina variety > of venues but rarely leaves my side? > > the basic rule is that unless you have encryption of the contents, physical > possession of the disk is, after some work, possession of its contents. > > That means keychain stuff, auto-fill on websites etc. > > There's the physical loss of the machine which is annoying, of course. Most > thieves will wipe the disk, I'd have thought, but they might look for credit > card details. > > So this is a good idea because it will deter 'casual' attempts to get > passwords. > > auto-login is a bad idea but we all use it...! > > If you're moving around a lot with it , I would say the more passwords the > better...but it's annoying to have to enter them over and over. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <smug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
