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Wouldn’t it be scary if there was a flash drive out there that could grab your most sensitive data off of your computer with little or no effort? Be warned, Such as device exists.
The MacLockPick as you would imagine works only on Mac, and rest assured that your password won’t be a problem for it. The software contained on the flash drive will extract your most sensitive information stored in your Apple Keychain and system settings. It will grab things like iChat passwords, iTunes store info, login details for websites and email accounts and much more.
Thankfully these are only available to law enforcement officials for $399 a pop. That means you won’t have to be too worried about these unless you’re breaking the law. Then again, if one of these were to slip into the wrong hands it could be disastrous.
MacLockPick Extracts Secrets from your Mac, Legally [via everythingusb]
One Response to “No Mac is safe from the MacLockPick”
guns April 30, 2007
Just a note to passersby: this app requires that it be launched from your user account and assumes that your keychain does not lock itself. Of course, this is the regrettable default behavior in OS X, but anyone even remotely interested in security would do these two things: make sure that the computer requires a password when waking from sleep or from a screensaver, and two: make sure the keychain locks itself after a short time interval (even better is to give the keychain a different password.
Of course, if someone has physical access to your machine, all this app does is save some time. The hard drive can always be pulled and read remotely. In that case, all unencrypted data is vulnerable. This is true of all computers, btw.
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