[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Steve Harris]

That’s actually pretty awesome… as long as the laptop has an SSD, if it has spinning rust it will suck a fair bit for the user.

> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:20, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:19, Julian Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk <mailto: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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>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
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>> 
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>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>> 
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>>  do with what we are today.' - William Glasser
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