Re: [Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted DriveImageFiles

Yes I did... which is why I am so concerned.... it prompted for the password immediately, but then did the "check" after having it being entered... and has NOT done it again, so I cannot reproduce the situation with this image to see if anything change that I can monitor.

mike


On 3/14/07, Rich Trouton <email@hidden> wrote:

Had you already provided your password to unlock the disk image when
the message popped up? It sounds like the disk image mounter was
running a checksum verification check before allowing it to mount.

Thanks,
Rich

On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Michael Pike wrote:

> 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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