[ale] Thumb drive problem

[James Sumners]

Sorry about that. It’s been a long week.

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 06:44 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for clarifying! I was about to go in a blind panic as work has 2
> dozen encrypted mac laptops and 1 was recently stolen and had sensitive
> data on it.
>
>
> On October 19, 2018 7:49:25 PM EDT, James Sumners via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
>>
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>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 6:10 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. Disks "encrypted" via macOS's Disk Utility can be cloned via `dd
>>> if=<drive> of=file.dmg` and then mounted to get around the encryption. Not
>>> cool.
>>>
>>>
>> This was wrong. I forgot that I had the password stored in the system
>> keychain on the computer I tested the image with. One thing to note,
>> though, is that to mount such an image you must do it via the `hdid`
>> utility like so: `hdid -nomount image.dmg`.
>>
>
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