How to Turn Your Mac into a FireWire Hard Drive

I followed these instructions:
http://www.ehow.com/how2160597hard-drive-quick-data-transfer.html
and it worked great, I was able to use my macbook as a hard drive and quickly copies files to it. But I'm concerned that anyone with a firewire cable and a mac can easily get at my files, and that having to log into my laptop is useless. Does anyone now a way to password protect/restrict access to my macbook via a firewire?
Thanks!

Thanks. To enable Open Firmware Password I found this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352
But enabling it blocks many other important start up troubleshooting task, such as starting up from a Diagnostic disc. It would be in the interest of security if I could password protect Target Disk Mode, because anyone can quickly get my files with just a firewire cable, but still allow the other start up task. So now I must decide between security and the ability to trouble shoot my computer if it doesn't start. I don't like having to choose between the two.

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