This episode includes a survey of security issues for Mac owners. Subjects include virus and trojans, phishing and web security, and physical security and insurance.
MacSparky Secure Disk Image Screencast #2
George Starcher Open DNS Screencast
Our nest show will be all about the new Snow Leopard services menu. E-mail us with your questions and favorite scripts.
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Hi,
thanks for the good show and the nice podcast.
One thing about PGP: In my opinion one can not trust a company which claims to use strong encryption but which is not willing (and not able of course) to proof this. And again the same thing holds for secure disk images and FileVault in Mac OS X. Nobody knows what (if any
) encryption is build in and if there isn’t any backdoor. So if someone is really concerned about data security one should use open source tools like TrueCrypt. This is just my opinion but I think it is really important to be absolutly aware at which point I have to trust and who is it I am putting trust into.
Keep the good work up!
best regards
Basti
Great tips on how to protect your mac.
I did have a question as it seem everyone talks about 1Password as the gatekeeper of ones password and logins. I’m sure who told me about it, but I use wallet from Acrylic Software. I have the iPhone app as well. It works great and from what I can tell similar to 1Password. They just updated it to work better with Snow Leopard. To date, I have had no problems. All I do when navigating to a secure site, I type in my wallet password and it auto-fills the login credentials for me.
Do you see any reason for me not remain onboard with Wallet?
Thanks
Charley
I wonder if this free laptop tracking app for Mac and Windows would be a good security measure if your Mac laptop does get stolen: http://preyproject.com/
On their site they say:
“Prey is a lightweight application that will help you track and find your laptop if it ever gets stolen. It works in all operating systems and not only is it Open Source but also completely free.”
I’ve been using a system called Adeona (http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/) which would send at regular intervals your IP address (and for Macs an iSight picture) encrypted to a distributed storage service. If it was stolen, there is a process to retrieve the information using your encryption key and you can get not just the last location/image, but a time period. Unfortunately, the underlying storage service has shut down so it’s temporarily not working. But, it’s something to consider in the future.