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Tiger will encrypt swap

As was noted here before, Panther currently keeps passwords in plain text in its swap file. A little grepping and you have someone's password.

Appleinsider has noticed that in their new tiger build there is an option in the security system preference to encrypt memory contents as they are written to swap. Glad to hear that apple has included this in the new OS.

Tiger is really shaping up to be an impressive step forward, and I'm glad Apple is making sure things are secure.