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[Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted Drive Image Files

Subject: [Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted Drive Image Files
From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:39:58 -0600
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I upgraded my MacBook Pro to 10.4.9 last night... aside from Remote Desktop crashing quite a bit (where it didn't before) as well as iChat crashing... something strange happened that I have a concern with...

I typically carry around FireLite drives with me to store my sensitive data on... I use encrypted drive image files to do this so that the information is unusable should the drive get lost or stolen... I do this instead of using FileVault as FileVault slows down the performance of Parallels or other large file access systems considerably....

My concern: This morning while mounting my secure drive image 10.4.9 popped up a window and stated, "Verifying Drive Image"... this took about 5-6 seconds....

What did 10.4.9 just do? With the way George W is being, was Apple pressured into some type of key backdoor? Did 10.4.9 install a secondary key or something that lets people into my image that I did not authorize?

Out of all my years with OS X, I have NEVER seen this message pop up on an encrypted R/W drive image, and now all the sudden it pops up... what exactly did it do?

This concerns me...
mike

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