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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Disklock
Summary: Not all true...
Keywords: security, hard disk, locking
Message-ID: <13506@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Sep 89 16:40:31 GMT
References: <12133@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <12133@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> boris@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Boris Altman) writes:
>I just got the DiskLock from 5-th generation system.
>For those of you who are considering this program
>here are a couple of things that are not obvious
>from any literature:
>1. The disk locking program does not work with any removable media,
>including SyQuest drives (MassMicro, Microtech and others who pachage
>this 45meg drive). 
>
	I have not tried this recently but during the beta testing of this
product, discussions with the author led me to believe that this was indeed
possible (I think we even did it once, as a test).  If the release version does
indeed put up the alert you imply, then something changed... Personally, if 
they have taken out this ability I would also be disappointed as locking 
syquest cartridges is very useful!

>2. If you shut mac down in some way other than normal SHUTDOWN,
>your disks will not be locked.
>
	I am curious as to how else you would shutDown your Macintosh? Even
the use of most of the ShutDown FKEY's and HC XCMD's will cause the disk to
lock - so how are you shutting down that does not lock it??
	Also keep in mind that there are two other ways to lock the disk - one
is to reboot with the option key held down, the other is to use the DiskLock
DA to lock it at any time you please (this is combined with a nice screensaver)
giving you a nice combination for when you walk away from your Mac for a while.

>3. Locking folders means encrypting and takes time proportional
>to the amount of files/data in the folder. I should have
>guessed this one.
>
	This is true - HOWEVER, unlocking takes practially NO TIME AT ALL!
If you consider that you only lock a folder once, but unlock frequently, I can
live with this one-time slowness....
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