Bugtraq: Re: Mac OS X stores login/Keychain/FileVault passwords on disk

[Ray Slakinski <ray.slakinski () gmail com>]

This all depends on the amount of ram you have and what is nornally
done on  your mac.  Still a major issue you have, but if you put in 
> 640 you probably have nothing to worry about.  A sad work around I
know, but while we wait for the ever slow to fix things - namely Apple
- its the best you can do.

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:05:45 +0200, Adi Kriegisch <adi () cg tuwien ac at> wrote:
> The swapfiles are deleted on startup -- this means even a clean shutdown by
> user leaves the passwords on disk.
> So if you loose your powerbook someone might boot it in "target disk mode" and
> will be able to get your password!
>
> Adi