“In case you lose your iPod (or any other external drive for that matter) or it gets stolen your data is in danger. I’m one of those people that constantly carries data on their iPod between two locations and I want to keep it safe. What follows is a brief tutorial aimed at those that want their data protected without investing in commercial software. In case you didn’t know, you can increase your privacy pretty easily with features embedded directly into Mac OS X.”
Kinda odd that he writes this nice little tutorial on how to encrypt your data and ends up simply with an encrypted image on the iPod where it does no one any good. He’s missing the oh-so-critical bit about how to get the data back out of the image :O
Of course, there’s probably nothing to it, and any idiot could figure it out, but you’d think an article about encryption would include decryption.
Double click on drive image. Type in password when prompt comes up.
No need to write that up.
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Uhh … how hard is double-clicking the image and then typing in your password?
You don’t have to be a Linux user to figure it out. 😀
I wonder what the performance of this hard drive is? Does anyone know how much CPU power it takes up?
5 to 9 % of CPU in my monitoring software to open the disk image, then nothing.
how fast ? the speed belongs to the drive it is. Don’t worry, very very fast enough to use it very well.
Is this Mac only? My Mac just died of failed RAM, PCs are cheep and easy to get access to. A true backup would be acessible on the largest range of hardware. A USB/Firwire drive works on a lot of stuff and if the disk image is Mac only, your backup is all but useless.