On 12/11/2007 12:37 PM, "Ed Pastore" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>> I've been wondering why Apple imposed that restriction, as I
>>> cannot identify a technological limitation that would preclude
>>> active backups (or TM browsing) by a logged-in FV user. I haven't
>>> played with TM (or 10.5) in my office much, but on my personal
>>> computer I have noticed that I can easily mount the diskimage on
>>> my FV drive and browse its contents. So if I can access the image,
>>> why can't Time Machine?
>>
>> TM does FileVault backups like it does as otherwise your TM disk
>> would be a nice, unencrypted, history of all your data.
>
> I understand why it uses an encrypted image. What I don't get is why
> it cannot read or write from/to that image when I am logged in. I can
> access that image from the Finder... I would think TM could acquire
> my privileges and access it as well.
Without re-encrypting that data, the only thing "protecting" it are
filesystem privileges, and those are trivial to bypass.
--
John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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