password protection for time machine

[john2006wright]

Hi guys,
I have a time machine back up of my mac on an external hard drive. If this HD was stolen/lost would an avergae joe be able to access the data. i.e if it was plugged into another computer would all my files be accessible.

I use a password to login to my admin account and i'm the only user account.

Do i need to add some protection to my external? I realise that a clever mac user could get around any protection.

Thanks,
John

 

[john2006wright]

anyone got any information that can help me?

 

[cptbigt]

As long as the person who has got your hard drive had a computer that can read the format of the drive correctly, then yeah, they could simply plug it in and browse through your files/folders as if it was just an ordinary storage disk.

I'm not entirely sure if your capable of putting some form of protection, not system wise anyway.

 

[john2006wright]

could i create an encypted disk image and then direct time machine to that? I suppose I would have to type a password each time that time machine backs up?

I just realised that its pointless having a password on my computer if my time machine back up external hard drive is sitting beside it and is completly unprotected.

thanks,
john