Hi Gnarlodious. first of all I want you to know that I haven't forgotten your Finder bug report or the workaround. I ran into the issue a couple of times and wanted to try to troubleshoot it a bit more, if I could. I also haven't seen any particular set of events that trigger it. Have you made any more progress?
On the issue of keychain security, the point I'm making is not so much about passwords which a black hat wouldn't be as interested in as goodies like bank account numbers, credit card numbers, brokerage account numbers and other personal data. A lot of folks have these floating around freely in their home folder.
I agree that is unlikely to get hacked but who wants to take the chance on ID theft? A good ID fetches between $2500 and $5000 USD in those chat rooms. Not bad for a couple of hours work or less, depending on how easy you make it.
As for physical security, all bets are off the minute someone shows up with a retail install disk.
The best you can hope to be is a frustrating target.
-mj
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