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Airport Disk

  • 07-01-2010 11:24pm
    #1
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭


    Hey all,

    Question for those of you more in the know than myself.

    I have an airport extreme base station with a WD passport connected as the airport disk. The format is SMB FAT.

    I set it up with airport utility so that you need a password to connect to the disk (not the wifi password, the disk has its own). My macbook connects automatically (keychain).

    Now here's the problem, while no one can connect to the drive over the network, someone could just walk up to it and unplug it, then wire it to a computer and see whats behind the password.

    Is there a way around this?

    My natural intuition tells me I should re-format the drive as HFS and then use a third party encryption utility. Is there such a thing?

    No windows pcs need access to the drive btw so formatting is not a huge problem.

    Advice appreciated on any solution!

    Thanks


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  • #2
    babypink
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,250 ✭✭✭babypink


    1) if you're worried enough to be asking the question then don't leave the drive connected to the base station. As it's a small one, I'd keep it with you and plug in when you need it.

    2) HFS all the way!

    3) I'm not aware of a whole disk encryption solution that will work. By way of alternative you could create an encrypted read/write DMG on the disk and keep all the data in that. This will add a layer of security in that the DMG is password controlled. So, even if another Mac user takes the HFS drive, without the password for the DMG they're stumped.


  • #3
    Stainless_Steel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭Stainless_Steel


    babypink wrote: »
    1) if you're worried enough to be asking the question then don't leave the drive connected to the base station. As it's a small one, I'd keep it with you and plug in when you need it.

    2) HFS all the way!

    3) I'm not aware of a whole disk encryption solution that will work. By way of alternative you could create an encrypted read/write DMG on the disk and keep all the data in that. This will add a layer of security in that the DMG is password controlled. So, even if another Mac user takes the HFS drive, without the password for the DMG they're stumped.

    Thanks babypink!

    I will look into creating a DMG.


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