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[ale] Thumb drive problem
- Subject: [ale] Thumb drive problem
- From: jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2018 06:44:30 -0400
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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:
>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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