Stolen(gone) Macbook security

Hi,
some $#@! stole my 2 macbooks from my car this week. i am curious about the lost data's safety. i know that i cant get them back but i am afraid that the thief might be capable of using the 100s of logins saved.
so, they were both running on SL . logins were with password.
i know that with a leopard dvd you can bypass/change the login password. but even if they can login, without authentication of the keychain(i think you would not be changing the keychain password from the dvd login) can they access the data of these;
transmit,
1password (always asked for the master password password of its own on app launch),
firefox(passwords were secured with a main password)
it s an urgent situation for me, i d be glad if some of you guys can help me out.
thanks in advance.

by the sound of it you should probably be fine so long as you didn't write the passwords in open text anywhere. anywhere in the emails? I don't use transmit but all the other things you mention: keychain, 1password and firefox passwords are encrypted. in firefox you need to set the master password but you have done so. one question. did you have automatic login turned on?

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