This all depends on the amount of ram you have and what is nornally done on your mac. Still a major issue you have, but if you put in >640 you probably have nothing to worry about. A sad work around I know, but while we wait for the ever slow to fix things - namely Apple - its the best you can do. [-----] Ray Slakinski GnuPG Fingerprint: 9065 5C54 2C4A B13B 52BB C37A 125B F012 08A7 0A54 Blog: http://ddll.sdf1.net On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:05:45 +0200, Adi Kriegisch <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The swapfiles are deleted on startup -- this means even a clean shutdown by > user leaves the passwords on disk. > So if you loose your powerbook someone might boot it in "target disk mode" and > will be able to get your password! > > Adi