WWDC and Time Machine
Well, lots of people will have lots to say about the expected announcements at Apple’s WWDC keynote today. As expected we have new Mac Pro desktop machines, and a preview of new features in the next version of MacOS X, “Leopard”.
For me, I was just thinking about this automatic backup feature, dubbed Time Machine. Am I the only one that thinks this is a security risk? What if you want to delete some sensitive financial document or whatever? Someone else can just “fly back” in time and find the file from days ago? That’s somewhat disquieting.
Perhaps it’s designed to not function when you use the Finder’s “secure delete” option. But the demo shows it recovering photos from iPhoto … what if really wanted that picture of you in that ugly Christmas sweater deleted for good but then… woosh someone accesses the time machine and blamo – it’s back. I hope Apple puts some security measures in place… like perhaps encrypting the data on the backup external disk.
I am also disappointed in the Mac Pro’s graphics card, which is fairly low end, and the price – I’d like a single processor version somewhere in the 1600 dollar range.. or Core 2 Duo’s in the iMac line… there seems to be a missing price point. You’ve got the iMac at like $1600, and then the Mac Pro with no monitor and four cores for $2500. Can Apple not find a middle ground here?
