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File Vault - Only if you power down your Mac.

Started by typicalmacuser · 1 year ago

by: George Starcher, Associate Editor

A real nice video and paper was released today on bypassing hard drive encryption. Nice as in well done. Scary though. More important to the typical mac user is that it works against file vault. You can see the article over on News.com. The news.com […]

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Rene
1 year ago

I would consider using protected disk images to store your secret data, and possibly TrueCrypt for Mac OS X to hide that disk image, so even if someone is looking for it, he will only find random data (unless he knows your password). You could even put harmless data in a TrueCrypt volume, and create a hidden volume inside the TrueCrypt volume, to have something what is called "plausible deniability" (look it up in Wikipedia). I wouldn't trust anything but open source software (not even Apple) to protect me from prying eyes.

You still need to shut down your Mac for safety, of course, if you leave your Mac unattended.

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