[OSX-Users] Re: Mac disk encryption

[Leslie Carr]

Can someone point me at some documentation? I have an embarrassingly large number of questions on how this works and what its implications are for me and my aluminium unibody pal who's fun to be with.


Prof Leslie Carr
Web Science institute
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On 2 Feb 2015, at 10:26, Steve Harris <s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:s.w.harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

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<mailto: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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Twitter: @JulesFM

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University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

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