Re: [Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted Drive ImageFiles
Re: [Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted Drive ImageFiles
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] OS X 10.4.9 Things - Backdoor to Encrypted Drive ImageFiles
- From: "Michael Pike" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:57:51 -0600
This makes sense, but the drive was never unmounted improperly... it would have had to have been done the night before, and my system was shut down without incident... we'll never know probably, but it's back to Blowfish encryption for me from an external country...
mike
On 3/14/07, Marko Kostyrko <email@hidden> wrote:
The disk image mounter will do a verification and partial repair if the unmounted flag in the volume header is left off (usually caused by detaching a drive without unmounting it or a system crash).
On Mar 14, 2007, at 12:49 PM, Michael Pike wrote:
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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