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Safer Workstation is a Mac OS X application designed to turn removable devices such as an iPod or thumb drive into
a user account "key". Even if someone has their computer require a password, anyone who knows the password can log in to the account - passwords can be stolen.
Introducing Safer Workstation. Simply run Safer Workstation and "tie" a thumb drive or iPod to the user account. When that drive is ejected, the user is logged out. Even if someone knows the log-in password, Safer Workstation will notice that the key is missing and will log the user out. Safer Workstation is
Introducing Safer Workstation. Simply run Safer Workstation and "tie" a thumb drive or iPod to the user account. When that drive is ejected, the user is logged out. Even if someone knows the log-in password, Safer Workstation will notice that the key is missing and will log the user out. Safer Workstation is
What's New
Version 1.0.1: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC, Mac OS X 10.0 or later.
PPC, Mac OS X 10.0 or later.
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| Downloads:1,899 |
| Version Downloads:1,490 |
| Type:Business : Applications |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:17 Jan 2005 |
| Platform:PPC |
| Price: $20.00 |
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Safer Workstation is a Mac OS X application designed to turn removable devices such as an iPod or thumb drive into
a user account "key". Even if someone has their computer require a password, anyone who knows the password can log in to the account - passwords can be stolen.
Introducing Safer Workstation. Simply run Safer Workstation and "tie" a thumb drive or iPod to the user account. When that drive is ejected, the user is logged out. Even if someone knows the log-in password, Safer Workstation will notice that the key is missing and will log the user out. Safer Workstation is shareware and only costs $20.00 to register. A 7-day trial period is included. See the online documention for details. Safer Workstation is made with REALbasic.
Introducing Safer Workstation. Simply run Safer Workstation and "tie" a thumb drive or iPod to the user account. When that drive is ejected, the user is logged out. Even if someone knows the log-in password, Safer Workstation will notice that the key is missing and will log the user out. Safer Workstation is shareware and only costs $20.00 to register. A 7-day trial period is included. See the online documention for details. Safer Workstation is made with REALbasic.
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Anonymous reviewed on 06 Jan 2005
1. Before being logout, there is a long delay (1 minute maybe) which allowed me to find how it was working.
2. The protection can be removed by deleting the Safer Workstation application or just renaming/moving it as the crontab is using an absolute path name.
3. The protection can be removed by deleting the crontab which is added.
4. The logout can be canceled by running a terminal as root or an application which refuses to quit on logout.
Anonymous reviewed on 06 Jan 2005
Too many unanswered questions for now.
Which means -- and let it be made perfectly clear that I'm in no way accusing the developer of doing this -- that the developer could, in theory, set up the application to allow this back door to work over a network.
I appreciate the effort, but closed-source RealBasic is not something I'm going to trust here.
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