[ale] Thumb drive problem

TheSmokintbird smokintbird at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 21:51:42 EDT 2018


Thanks for the tip!

USB can be flaky sometimes, you never know how it'll fail!


Christopher Atkinson
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On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 7:49 PM James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:

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>
> 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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