No. The firmware password can be easily and trivially defeated with
unfettered physical access (change physical amount of RAM in the
machine, and zap PRAM).
And I was about to respond to the last post, too, and thought better
of it...but anyway, yes, it is a moot point and mostly a ridiculous
argument, but *technically*, if a thief could somehow easily do this,
it would render FileVault useless for a logged-in user. Why it would
be necessary to close the lid as opposed to just taking it is beyond
me, but as long as we're considering every fringe case, there's
another one.
- Dave
On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Not if the EFI or Open Firmware password have been set.
Matt Burnett wrote:
Thats a moot point. If a thief has physical access to a machine, he
wont care if its logged in or not. If he wants the data, he can
boot off a CD, if they want a machine, then well, they all ready
have it.
On Jan 2, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote:
Too bad that this may be a mechanism for a thief to use to leave
one's machine running and logged in while they move it to another
location.
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