[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Tim Chown]

> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:19, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> Note that it only appears to do this as part of the upgrade process on laptops, not minis or iMacs.

Presumably because laptops are more losable/nickable…

> 
> Jules.
> 
> On 02/02/2015 10:17, Tim Chown wrote:
>>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:11, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Why is that a bad idea? All laptops issued directly by iSolutions have encryption enabled, both Mac and Windows.
>> 
>> Just alerting people to the fact that they have a choice, and that the default encryption is a New Thing.
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>>> On 02/02/2015 09:55, Tim Chown wrote:
>>>> Beware if clicking through the 10.10.2 Yosemite update - by default it will turn on disk encryption.
>>>> 
>>>> Tim
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Jules
>>> 
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>> 
> 
> Jules
> 
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