Comments on: Protect Your Folders on Mac OS X http://mhdbadi.com/archives/2965 Notesaholic Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:56:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mohammad Badi Irshid http://mhdbadi.com/archives/2965#comment-2680 Mohammad Badi Irshid Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:20:46 +0000 http://mhdbadi.com/?p=2965#comment-2680 @Qwaider: Hmmm! I think that you have a very good skills to convince people including me, I just wanted to say.. Yeah, your idea is way better :) @Qwaider: Hmmm! I think that you have a very good skills to convince people including me, I just wanted to say.. Yeah, your idea is way better :)

]]> By: Qwaider قويدر http://mhdbadi.com/archives/2965#comment-2667 Qwaider قويدر Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:41:45 +0000 http://mhdbadi.com/?p=2965#comment-2667 The idea here is that these passwords are kind-of awkward. The logical/secure way to do it is to have a password for your account. Then create separate accounts for other users, even in a family shared computer. This way each family member can customize their computer/desktop ..etc as they like. All while protecting their documents from everyone else. Password protecting a folder while allowing everything else to run on your computer is not a good idea. Someone determined to break into your files, might install password logger, or just try a brute force type of attack to unlock the files. Anyway, I just wanted to understand the rationale behind it :) thanks for explaining The idea here is that these passwords are kind-of awkward. The logical/secure way to do it is to have a password for your account. Then create separate accounts for other users, even in a family shared computer. This way each family member can customize their computer/desktop ..etc as they like. All while protecting their documents from everyone else.

Password protecting a folder while allowing everything else to run on your computer is not a good idea. Someone determined to break into your files, might install password logger, or just try a brute force type of attack to unlock the files.

Anyway, I just wanted to understand the rationale behind it :)
thanks for explaining

]]> By: Mohammad Badi Irshid http://mhdbadi.com/archives/2965#comment-2663 Mohammad Badi Irshid Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:15:42 +0000 http://mhdbadi.com/?p=2965#comment-2663 @Qwaider: I said in the title protect "Your" so I'm not the only one. People: who use public computers, how want to protects personal or important data from another users or people who may try to get this data. Add to that family computers, I may have personal stuff that i don't want other to see. To me it's a general purpose, I may give it someday to my friend to use it but I have personal things...etc Lots of uses and benefits. What about you? @Qwaider: I said in the title protect “Your” so I’m not the only one. People: who use public computers, how want to protects personal or important data from another users or people who may try to get this data. Add to that family computers, I may have personal stuff that i don’t want other to see. To me it’s a general purpose, I may give it someday to my friend to use it but I have personal things…etc
Lots of uses and benefits. What about you?

]]> By: Qwaider قويدر http://mhdbadi.com/archives/2965#comment-2662 Qwaider قويدر Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:06:55 +0000 http://mhdbadi.com/?p=2965#comment-2662 Sorry, but can you explain one thing to me? Why would you want to password protect your folders from yourself? Sorry, but can you explain one thing to me?
Why would you want to password protect your folders from yourself?

]]>