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Create a physical, removable USB-based Keychain
Authored by: carsten on May 27, '03 11:31:01PM

Sounds like this hint would work with an iPod too, so long as you have its disk mode turned on to mount it in the Finder.

The iPod's dimensions are not as tiny (key-like) as the little USB hard drives though, so it may not be as cool a trick for impressing your cooworkers. ;)



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PGP keys
Authored by: paulrob on May 28, '03 04:08:27AM

I keep my important data encrypted on my Mac with PGP - I live in a bad part of town, and am sometimes surprised to see my Mac still around when I get home!

I keep all the keys for PGP on my iPod and I've told PGP where they are. No problems at all - except you've got to remember to hook it up. Which sort of brings us back to the comment made earlier by AMacAddict. A security system that requires you to physically do something is not really security at all because people eventually slip up.



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PGP keys
Authored by: slytle on May 28, '03 07:29:46AM

"A security system that requires you to physically do something is not really security at all because people eventually slip up."

This is just another layer of security. You still have it password protected, right? So now, instead of someone having to guess your passwords, they have to find your ipod or usb drive, figure out how to use it, if they aren't very computer literate, and then guess your passwords. Just one more layer to discourage people. Nothing is 100% secure. The object of security is to make it difficult enough that people will just give up...



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PGP keys
Authored by: launchpad on May 28, '03 01:32:30PM

Agreed. Good security has a lot of layers - physical, electronic, etc.

Have you also enabled the mac-version of a BIOS password using 'Open Firmware Password'? Might be a nice extra bit of security, since it sounds like it's an issue where you are.



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