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Password protecting disk images from yourself...
Authored by: quo on Apr 18, '03 09:33:10AM
If you are anything like me, using "type once" passwords on disk images might strike back after the next upgrade or reinstall.

I'd feel very uncomfortable knowing that my own access to my carefully backed up disk images depends on some preference file that I might have remembered to back up in time or not.

We're talking Apple here, so at least the format of the preference file becoming unusable for future keychain releases shouldn't be a major concern. Or maybe it should, as any time you trust something to another layer of software between your data and you.

Those who still keep their precious backup 1/2" tape media, 8" floppies, MFM or RLL disks, 5.1/4" floppies and other low- density media of the past around can probably relate to this. Especially if by now they lack a working device to read the media with, or if the interface this device used to be connected to has long since become obsoleted by product managers and newer, faster, higher volume standards.

After all, a single puny floppy disk was able to hold the result of several months worth of (own) work.

But I'm digressing to alt.folklore.computers ;)

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