@Digital Anime
As a security pro, I don't see the ability to turn the Mac into a firewire drive as much of a risk. It's just as easy to pull data off an NTFS-formatted drive using a linux bootdisk.
The fact is, if you have data worth protecting, whether on PC or Mac, you need to encrypt it. The Mac does have a built-in encryption feature called File Vault, which can protect the data if the user bothers to turn it on. Of course, it makes turning the Mac into a firewire drive less useful at that point.
As a security pro, I don't see the ability to turn the Mac into a firewire drive as much of a risk. It's just as easy to pull data off an NTFS-formatted drive using a linux bootdisk.
The fact is, if you have data worth protecting, whether on PC or Mac, you need to encrypt it. The Mac does have a built-in encryption feature called File Vault, which can protect the data if the user bothers to turn it on. Of course, it makes turning the Mac into a firewire drive less useful at that point.